RAVENSCROFT HALL

RAVENSCROFT HALL, KING STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160339
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: RAVENSCROFT HALL
Statutory Address:: RAVENSCROFT HALL, KING STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1160339
Date first listed:: 02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: RAVENSCROFT HALL
Statutory Address 1:: RAVENSCROFT HALL, KING STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: RAVENSCROFT HALL, KING STREET

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

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Byley
National Grid Reference:: SJ 70329 67617

Details

BYLEY C.P. KING STREET SJ 76 NW 5/13 1 October 1979 Ravenscroft Hall II Mansion, 1837 (Gable pediment) with 1877 additions (Pevsner) now divided into two dwellings. Roughcast and yellow brickwork with stone dressing, hipped slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays with added 5-bay wing north-east. The south-west return (garden front) is also 5 bays. Stone plinth, moulded ground floor window head and first floor sill and window head string courses. Oak three-quarter-glazed door with bolection moulded lower panel in doorcase with panelled linings and rectangular overlight. The door is fronted by a flat topped prostyle porch supported by two unfluted Ionic columns and two pilasters. Large recessed sashes with glazing bars and stone sills. The north-east wing is slightly set back with a central Italianate bell tower, mainly of yellow brick, rising to three storeys. The tower has stone semicircular headed openings above a moulded string course, wide eaves soffite and pyramid roof with ball finial. The tower is fronted by a single storey octagonal structure with two stage hipped roof and 2-light casement with glazing bars to most faces. The last bay, north-east, is a 2-storey canted bay. The south-west elevation has the central bay set forward, this is surmounted by a gable pediment with floral and scroll decorations and the date, in the t:ympanum. The rear (south-east) elevation has two canted bays flanking tripartite sashes. Wide coved eaves cornice and high standing yellow brick stacks. Interior: Stair Hall-stone open string staircase with metal balustrade and hardwood wreathed handrail and three matching galleries to the four walls. Rectangular panelled and hipped lantern over stairwell. 3-door Mahogany screen, across Entrance Hall, half glazed with diminished styles and panels below and full width overlight. Former Ball Room (south-east). Divided into two by a screen of unfluted Corinthian columns and pilasters. Fireplaces, to both ends of room, in Grecian style with urns, garlands and egg and dart eared architraves. Walls panelled with plaster floral mould with scalloped corners. Panelled window shutters to bay and four-panel doors, coved and moulded ceiling based on foliage rolls, elaborate ceiling roses, diamond grid, arcs and foliage. Drawing Room - Modified bead and reel cornice, oak chimney piece dated 1877. In the 1877 part of the house the Dining and Billiard Rooms have their ceilings panelled in strips of oak and have Oak fireplaces. There are also rooms at first floor level which have ceilings panelled in Oak strips, they have in addition coved and beaded cornices, panelled window shutters and 4-panel doors.

Listing NGR: SJ7032967617

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Legacy System number:: 57192
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.