Bexton Hall and Forecourt Walls
BEXTON HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, BEXTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115558
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bexton Hall and Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BEXTON HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, BEXTON LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115558
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bexton Hall and Forecourt Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEXTON HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, BEXTON 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:
- BEXTON HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, BEXTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bexton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 74770 76966
Details
SJ 77 NW BEXTON C.P. (Off) BEXTON LANE
6/32 Bexton Hall and forecourt walls
5.3.59
- II*
House. Late C17. Plum-coloured English garden wall bond brick with stone slate and slate roofs. 2 storeys with basement. Entrance front: 5 bays symmetrical, the first and fifth bays being projecting wings with a terrace formed between them raised above basement level by a flight of seven steps and with a parapet wall flush with the front of the wings. Brick bands of 3 bricks depth between basement and ground and ground and first floor. Central doorway with moulded wooden surround and 6-panel door with pairs of rectangular panels to top and bottom and 2 octagonal panels to centre. Semi-circular hood above, supported on acanthus-moulded consoles. 2-light C20 metal framed casement windows to either side of doorway and to fronts of wings. Similar correspondingly placed windows to first floor, originally all with splayed heads. One original wooden window surround to left of front door. Central first floor stone tablet with moulded surround. 2-light mullioned cambered-headed casements to basements of wings. Wings have separate pyramidal stone slate roofs. Body of house has hipped slate roof rising to flat lead-covered platform on which originally stood a lantern. Contiguous with this front is a forecourt with walls of c.4' in height with stone coping and opening opposite front door. Left hand side of house has 5 bays. 3 basement 3-light basket-arched windows, that to right bricked in, those to left with rendered brick mullions. Basket-arched doorway to left of centre in stone-walled area. Ground floor windows cambered headed, that to right bricked up and rendered, others with C20 metal-framed casements. Left hand first floor window is a C20 metal casement, other windows all bricked up and rendered. Rear: central projecting gabled wing with 2-light basement window. 3-light C20 replacement casement to ground floor and similar to first floor and attic, windows to right all now bricked up. Mullioned 2-light basement window to left with bricked up window and imposed C20 staircase window to ground floor. Bricked-up first floor window. Right hand side of house similar to left but with out buildings abutting at ground floor right. Interior: Closed tread, dog-leg staircase has panelled facings to treads, twist balusters (enclosed to main runs from ground to first floor) but visible on basement and attic flights. Panelled newels. Small splat-balustered flight to former lantern.
Listing NGR: SJ7477076966
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58525
- 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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