Gatehouse to Former Ridley Hall
GATEHOUSE TO FORMER RIDLEY HALL, WREXHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138584
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Former Ridley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE TO FORMER RIDLEY HALL, WREXHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1138584
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse to Former Ridley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE TO FORMER RIDLEY HALL, WREXHAM 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.
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:
- GATEHOUSE TO FORMER RIDLEY HALL, WREXHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bulkeley and Ridley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5469354755
Details
SJ 55 SW RIDLEY C.P. WREXHAM ROAD
4/30 Gatehouse to former
Ridley Hall.
II*
Gatehouse, circa 1530 (Leland's Report). Stone and brick with roof of
large slates. Archway with floor above. Front and rear walls mainly
coursed stonework, passageway walls between the arched openings mainly
brickwork. The facade (south) has projecting plinth, ovolo moulded
quoins to archway, plain imposts and ovolo moulded segmental arch with
scotia hood mould. The stonework is separated from the brick section
above by a slender ogee cornice. At the crown of the arch the cornice
supports a carved stone achievement of arms consisting of the Egerton
escutcheon flanked by term pilasters, with heads, and scrolls
supporting horn players and animals. This is set in a brick wall with
quoins which supports the roof. The rear (north) archway is similar
to the facade but the imposts are moulded and there are no arms in the
brick area above the stone cornice.
Interior: The ceiling, between the two arches, has ovolo moulded
beams front and rear, an ovolo moulded main beam, and large section
stop chamfered joists supporting the oak boarded floor above. The
pitched roof over the gatehouse has been retimbered but some chamfered
purlins remain. Later farm buildings flank the archway east and west.
This structure may be all that remains of the "fine Ridley Hall"
mentioned in Leland's Itinerary of 1530, in which case it is among the
earlier Classical Structures of the region.
Listing NGR: SJ5469354755
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Toulmin Smith, L, The Itinerary of John Leland in or about the Years 1535-1543, (1964)
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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