Duddon Old Hall
DUDDON OLD HALL, WILLINGTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130566
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Duddon Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DUDDON OLD HALL, WILLINGTON LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-09-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/05377/23
- Rights:
- © Dr John L. Wishlade. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130566
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Duddon Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUDDON OLD HALL, WILLINGTON 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:
- DUDDON OLD HALL, WILLINGTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Duddon and Burton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51546 64697
Details
SJ 56 SW DUDDON C.P. WILLINGTON LANE
(West Side)
5/29 Duddon Old Hall.
22/10/1952
GV II
Farmhouse: late C16, graffito date of 1772, early C19 alterations and additions and late C19 restoration of timber framing. Partly timber-framed on stone plinth, partly washed brick. Graduated stone-slate roof, and some Welsh slate. Projecting stone stacks at either end. 1 plastered ridge chimney. Plan of hall and crosswing. 2-storey, 4-bay south front. Left end bay is timber framed and projects under barge-boarded gable. 5-light ovolo moulded wood-mullioned windows with smaller 4-light windows at high level to either side. Studding in ground storey, lozenges and shaped balusters in first floor and lozenges and serpentine struts in the gable. Carved brackets and tiebeams. 2nd bay has wooden doorcase with a triangular pediment and a 6-panelled door. Windows are 2 and 3-light casements under flat wedged stone heads and stone sills. Graffito date on right end, diagonal strutting in rear gable and added parallel range to rear. Interior: Broad entrance hall with hall to right. This has inglenook with massive oak bressumer and heck post with former entry against screen. Chamfered ceiling beams. To left is parlour and above is main chamber. This is open to the ridge and wainscotted throughout with fluted panels at the top. Moulded stone fireplace with depressed arch, 6-panelled door with reeded rails. Similar door to cupboard at top of stairs. Some wainscotting in bathroom and door with curved H-hinges. Room over hall with deeply chamfered and stopped ceiling beam. Winder stair to rear shows blocked diamond-mullioned window. Range to rear were cheeserooms, with base of stone press below and whey rotted floorboards above.
The unusual windows in the crosswing would have exactly matched those in Church House, Tarvin (q.v.) and were also used by Douglas at The Bars and the Owen Owen building, Eastgate Street, Chester. A photograph of the unrestored gable is given in J Parkinson and E A Ould Old Cottages, Farm Houses and other half-timbered buildings. London 1904.
Listing NGR: SJ5156364719
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parkinson, , Ould, , Old Cottages Farm Houses and other half timbered buildings in Shropshire Herefordshire and Cheshire, (1904)
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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