Gawsworth New Hall
GAWSWORTH NEW HALL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159278
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Gawsworth New Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GAWSWORTH NEW HALL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1159278
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gawsworth New Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAWSWORTH NEW HALL, CHURCH LANE
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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:
- GAWSWORTH NEW HALL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gawsworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89192 69835
Details
SJ 86 NE GAWSWORTH C.P. CHURCH LANE
5/10 Gawsworth New Hall (formerly listed as the New Hall)
14.4.67
GV II*
Country House. 1707-1712 with later additions and alterations, including those dated on datestone of 1914 by Sir Hubert Worthington. Red Flemish bond brick with stone slate roof. Two storeys and attic, E-shaped plan. Garden front: 16 bays. Slightly projecting plinth. String course between floors. C19 sash windows of 4 panes to both floors replacing original casement lights. Flat-arched heads of gauged brick, those at ground floor level being deeper. Doorway at fifth ground floor bay from left replacing original window. Doorway at seventh bay from right now replaced by a window. Break in band above this indicates possible large doorcase. All windows have stone sills. Hipped dormers to attic. Left hand reveal: 7 bays similar to garden front save that the ground floor sash windows have 3 x 5 panes and there is a central elaborate wooden doorcase by Sir Hubert Worthington with Corinthian pilasters and segmental open pediment containing swags in high relief supporting a coat of arms of the first Earl of Harrington. First floor window second from right now replaced by triple single-light sashed windows. Courtyard front: Central projecting wing with brick quoins to corners and square datestone to first floor centre containing date 1914 with initial H and coronet over in circular cable surround. Four bays to either side, those in the re-entrant angles to central projection being single storey slightly recessed wings, contemporary with it. Other bays as on garden front with door at left and breaks in string course at right and left indicating probable original doorcases. Projecting wings at either side with usual fenestration but altered by insertion of smaller windows to service rooms, fire escape at right of right hand wing and garage door at left of left hand wing. Original 2-light casement window surviving in right hand wing at first floor level in second bay from left of cross form with 4 x 10 panes to lower lights and 4 x 6 panes above. Similar upper portion of window whose lower lights have been replaced with plate glass at ground floor right of left hand wing. Interior: Drawing room: late C18 wooden panelled fireplace with painted canvas overmantel of flowers in a vase. Mid Victorian Adam-style surround to another ground floor fireplace. Some hob-grates surviving to attics.
The house was started by Lord Mohun but abandoned after his death in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton in 1712 in which both men were killed.
Sources:
R Richards - The Manor of Gawsworth
Nikolaus Pevsner & - The Buildings of England : Cheshire Edward Hubbard
Listing NGR: SJ8919169837
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58596
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Richards, R, The Manor of Gawsworth, ()
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
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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