CRAWSHAW HALL

CRAWSHAW HALL, BURNLEY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163900
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1971
List Entry Name:: CRAWSHAW HALL
Statutory Address:: CRAWSHAW HALL, BURNLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1163900
Date first listed:: 07-Jun-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: CRAWSHAW HALL
Statutory Address 1:: CRAWSHAW HALL, BURNLEY ROAD

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:: CRAWSHAW HALL, BURNLEY ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Rossendale (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 80919 24948

Details

SD 82 SW RAWTENSTALL BURNLEY ROAD Crawshawbooth

6/160 Crawshaw Hall 7.6.1971 (formerly listed under Crawshaw Booth) GV II*

Large house, dated 1831 on rainwaterhead at south-east corner. Ashlar, with low-pitched lead-clad roof concealed by a parapet, various chimneys. Rectangular triple-pile plan. Two and 3 storeys, all one height. Mix Georgian and Gothic style, with embattled turrets, sashed windows with hoodmoulds. Six-bay north and south fronts both have slim octagonal corner turrets with battlements above the parapet, which has on both fronts 2 steps containing shields. North entrance front has wide 3-bay 2-storey symmetrical main facade: single-storey canted porch with Gothic-style glazed and panelled doors, fanlight with intersecting glazing bars, moulded Tudor arch flanked by thin buttresses, and embattled parapet; shorter 3-bay 3-storey service wing continues to right, with central door and square windows. South front to garden all 2 storeys, a symmetrical; offset to right is a 3-bay 2-storey canted bay flanked by turrets and with buttresses to the centre terminating with pinnacles above the parapet, tall cross windows at ground floor, sashed windows above; to left is a round-headed doorway with 2 glazed panels and plain fanlight, and 2 plate-glass fixed windows at ground floor, 3 sashed windows above; to right, one window each floor. East side wall in matching style. Interior: lateral entrance hallway with black and white diamond-pattern marble floor, opening onto a parallel side passages, one containing dog-legged stone staircase. Very elaborate and complete Gothic-style decorations (restored), principally: study, with carved ivy-leaf openwork surrounds to windows; drawing room which has moulded plaster frieze and cornice, carved pelmets to windows, foliated ceiling rose, fireplace with ogee-shaped carved stone surround (crocketed and pinnacled with candlesticks carried on pinnacles), and opposed end-wall mirrors with carved canopies; and dining room with simpler but matching decoration and double doors with Gothic panelling.

Listing NGR: SD8091924948

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Legacy System number:: 185739
Legacy System:: LBS

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