Ashton Hall Farmhouse

ASHTON HALL FARMHOUSE, KELSALL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1130556
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Ashton Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
ASHTON HALL FARMHOUSE, KELSALL ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1130556
Date first listed:
01-Mar-1967
List Entry Name:
Ashton Hall Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
ASHTON HALL FARMHOUSE, KELSALL ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ASHTON HALL FARMHOUSE, KELSALL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ashton Hayes and Horton-cum-Peel
National Grid Reference:
SJ 50684 69006

Details

SJ 56 NW ASHTON C.P. KELSALL ROAD (North Side)

3/4 Ashton Hall Farmhouse.

1/3/1967

GV II*

Farmhouse and cottage: early C17, cottage added later C17, top storey remodelled early C19. Tooled dressed red and buff sandstone blocks, concrete tile roof, brick gable chimneys. Large rectangular house with a cross passage. 3-storey, 5-bay east front to main house. Plinth, cyma-moulded band at 1st floor and stepped cornice. 1st and 4th bay have moulded stone doorecases (1st bay blocked). 3-light, rebated and chamfered mullioned and transomed windows except for top storey with 3-light wooden casements. To right is 2-storey and attic, 2-bay cottage, with cyma-moulded band at 2nd floor. Modern door and 4-light chamfered stone mullioned windows. Left end has bands at both floors and ovolo-moulded windows. 2-storey west front with similar elements. Interior: not inspected but provisional list records a wide fireplace opening on ground floor. Very unusual Jacobean staircase, full height with close string enriched with carved strap ornament, shaped balusters, moulded rail, some newels running up and some with foliate ovoid finials. South-east room on 1st floor has pegged oak panelling on 3 sides. 2 and 4-panelled doors with unusual hinges. There is a loose and worn inscribed stone against the house reading RICHARD LATCHFORD 1711 ..TD which may relate to the building.

Listing NGR: SJ5068469006

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
55707
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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