Magdalen House and Flanking Screen Walls
MAGDALEN HOUSE AND FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, MAGDELN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083437
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Magdalen House and Flanking Screen Walls
- Statutory Address:
- MAGDALEN HOUSE AND FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, MAGDELN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083437
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Magdalen House and Flanking Screen Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGDALEN HOUSE AND FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, MAGDELN LANE
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MAGDALEN HOUSE AND FLANKING SCREEN WALLS, MAGDELN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 20060 29339
Details
PRESTON MAGDALEN LANE TA 22 NW (north side, off)
4/15 Magdalen House and flanking screen walls
GV II Farmhouse and flanking screen walls. 1815 for Thomas Wilson, with minor later C19 alterations. Red-brown, whitewashed to north front. Pantile roof. Plan: double- depth, with 2-room central entrance-hall principal south front, secondary north front, and screen walls adjoining to east and west, incorporating late C19 outshut on west side of house. South front: 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays, with entrance slightly to left of centre. Doorcase with panelled pilasters and brackets carrying dosserets and hood, inner panelled architrave with carved rosettes to angles. Half-glazed door (4 panes above 2 fielded panels) beneath moulded cornice and radial fanlight in round-headed panelled reveal. Unequal 20-pane ground-floor sashes in reveals with sills and painted rubbed-brick cambered arches. 12-pane first-floor sashes in flush wooden architraves with similar sills and arches. All sashes with narrow glazing bars. Stepped eaves. Double-span roof. Tumbled-in brick to raised gable. End stacks. Right return: single 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves to ground and first floors, 4-pane attic sliding sash. Left return has 6-pane attic casement, three 6-pane ground-floor windows in adjoining screen wall. North front: 3 bays; symmetrical. Doorcase with panelled pilasters carrying tall dosserets and open modillioned pediment. 6-fielded-panel door and blind radial fanlight in round-headed reveal. C20 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves with sills and stucco cambered arches. Central round-headed first-floor sash with glazing bars. Stepped eaves. Outshut to right has similar single 12-pane sash to each floor. Plain stone-coped screen walls extending approximately 20 metres to each side, approximately 2 metres tall, that to west with late C19 ramped parapet on south side of outshut. Interior. Entrance hall has corniced dado rail, 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves and beaded-panel reveals, round-arched opening to rear stairhall with panelled pilasters and archivolt with fluted key. Open well staircase with ramped corniced handrail, slender column balusters, plain newels and scrolled cheekpieces; ramped corniced dado rail. Ground-floor front rooms have moulded cornices, C19 chimney-pieces flanked by round-headed alcoves, panelled window shutters. First-floor hall has elliptical arch with keyed archivolt, dado rail, 6-fielded-panel doors in architraves. Front bedrooms have original fireplaces with cast-iron duck's- nest grates and chimney-pieces with panelled pilasters, dosserets, plain friezes and moulded cornices, that to front left flanked by full-height cupboards with fielded-panel doors; moulded cornices to front and rear right bedrooms.
Listing NGR: TA2006029339
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166661
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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