Overton Hall
OVERTON HALL, OVERTON HEATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106258
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Overton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OVERTON HALL, OVERTON HEATH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106258
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Overton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OVERTON HALL, OVERTON HEATH
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.
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:
- OVERTON HALL, OVERTON HEATH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malpas
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 47135 48357
Details
SJ 44 NE OVERTON OVERTON HEATH
4/33 Overton Hall 22.1O.52 II
House, mid to late C16 altered, with early C19 wing and later additions; on an earlier moated site. Timber framed, painted brick nogging to two facades. Mostly brick faced. Slate roofs, tile ridges. 2 storey L plan. Exposed stone stack, stepped with chamfered drip. Stone stack with brick upper portion, now internal. The oldest parts have C19 3 light sash windows, one with glazing bars. 2 other recent casements. Stud door in added brick porch. 1 gable has slightly moulded bargeboards. Rear: Close studding, shallow 1st floor jettying with moulded bressumer. Moulded corbels, recent casements. C19 wing: brick, stone capped gable parapet, gable end stacks. 3 bay, recessed sashes. Central stone porch and 2 stone bays with slight stop chamfers. Eaves modillions. Added brick blocks to rear, painted, simulating timber framing. Interior: Part inspected. Inglenook. Some panelling, and doors, perhaps reused. Panelled cupboards of similar date in C19 part. Rear wing: chamfered and ovolo moulded beams. Central wing. 1st floor undecorated cruck. Stair in back wing has octagonal newel post. Ormerod, Pevsner & Hubbard.
Listing NGR: SJ4713548357
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55174
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Ormerod, G, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Volume 1, (1882)
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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