Woodthorpe Hall
WOODTHORPE HALL, FANSHAWE GATE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109634
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Woodthorpe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WOODTHORPE HALL, FANSHAWE GATE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1109634
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Woodthorpe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODTHORPE HALL, FANSHAWE GATE LANE
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:
- WOODTHORPE HALL, FANSHAWE GATE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Holmesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 31489 78755
Details
PARISH OF HOLMESFIELD FANSHAWE GATE LANE SK 37 NW 5/152 25.10.51 Woodthorpe Hall GV II House. C17 with later additions. Coursed coal measures sandstone with quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers, ashlar ridge and gable stacks, and a stone slated roof. L-plan house. East elevation. Two storey and attics, five bays, with central doorway, flanked to the south by a single light C17 opening, and to the north by a 3-light recessed and chamfer mullioned window. To the north end, a former doorway with quoined surround and a massive lintel, now blocked to form a 2-light window. 3-light chamfer mullioned window to south end, all windows beneath a continuous dripmould which steps up over blocked doorway. First floor with two 3-light and three single light windows, all C17, beneath a continuous dripmould. Two gabled dormers to attic, with copings and kneelers, and with 3-light mullioned windows beneath plain dripmoulds. South elevation of five bays with gable to east and with single, 2-light and 3-light mullioned windows beneath continuous dripmoulds. Two gabled attic dormers, each with 3-light mullioned windows. Off centre single storey gabled porch, with Tudor-arched lintel. The ground floor windows have been increased in depth. To the north elevation has been added the two storey porch of Owlerton Hall, Sheffield, with a rusticated ashlar surround, with massive projecting keyblock above cambered doorway head, all below a plain dripmould. Above the doorway a 3-light chamfer mullioned window with a plain dripmould, above which is a plaque bearing a coal of arms. Interior. Two good C17 hearths and exposed ceiling timbers survive in the ground floor rooms, and the attic rooms contain exposed cruck trusses which are either raised or upper crucks, apparently re-used from an earlier structure.
Listing NGR: SK3148978755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79634
- 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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