Woodfold Hall

WOODFOLD HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164542
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:
Woodfold Hall
Statutory Address:
WOODFOLD HALL
Woodfold Hall (formerly known as Woodfold Park), a Country House that was built for Henry Sudell in 1798 by James Wyatt.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164542
Date first listed:
27-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
13-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:
Woodfold Hall
Statutory Address 1:
WOODFOLD HALL

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WOODFOLD HALL

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Ribble Valley (District Authority)
Parish:
Mellor
National Grid Reference:
SD 63633 29289

Details

MELLOR SD 62 NW 8/27 Woodfold Hall (formerly listed as 27-8-1952 Woodfold Park) - II Country house, now unoccupied and derelict. 1798 by James Wyatt. Sandstone rubble with main facades of ashlar and with brick flues. Now roofless. 2 storeys, with plinth, band, and cornice. South facade of 9 bays, the 3 central bays flanked and separated by pilasters under a tetrastyle portico. The columns and pilasters are of a Composite order: their capitals are fluted above a band of acanthus leaves. The windows have plain ashlar reveals, only a few sashes with glazing bars remaining. The east and west facades are each of 5 bays, the central bay on each side projecting and having tripartite windows, the ground-floor ones under a super-arch. At the rear 2 wings run back towards the north and enclose a courtyard. Their outer walls are mostly standing, but the inner walls, facing the courtyard, have collapsed. Interior not fully accessible at time of survey, but little of the decoration or architectural features seems to remain. RCHM report with plan and photographs dated November 1956.

Listing NGR: SD6363329289

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
183513
Legacy System:
LBS

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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