GRESSINGHAM HALL AND FORMER STABLES ADJOINING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1164615
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:: GRESSINGHAM HALL AND FORMER STABLES ADJOINING
Statutory Address:: GRESSINGHAM HALL AND FORMER STABLES ADJOINING

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1164615
Date first listed:: 04-Oct-1967
List Entry Name:: GRESSINGHAM HALL AND FORMER STABLES ADJOINING
Statutory Address 1:: GRESSINGHAM HALL AND FORMER STABLES ADJOINING

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:: GRESSINGHAM HALL AND FORMER STABLES ADJOINING

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Gressingham
National Grid Reference:: SD 57298 69908

Details

GRESSINGHAM SD 56 NE Gressingham Hall and former stables 7/84 adjoining 4-10-1967

GV II*

House, late C17th, extended mid C18th. Slobbered rubble with stone slate roof. Earlier part comprises a front range with rear wings parallel to each other. 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays, with 2 drip courses. Windows of 2 lights, rebated and chamfered with mullions. Attic has similar short windows to bays 2 and 4 only. The door, in the central bay, has a moulded surround and shaped lintel with no inscription. The gables have copings with kneelers, and chimneys with weathered offsets. Both return walls have mullioned windows to the rear wings. Set back to the right is a 2-bay extension, probably C18th despite having 2-light rebated and chamfered attic windows. On the 1st floor are sashed windows with glazing bars and architraves. The ground-floor window is of 3 lights with flat-faced mullions. The door, in the left-hand bay, has a cyma-moulded surround under a stone porch with pilasters. Adjoining to the right is a 2-storey former coach house and stable, now mostly part of the house. At the left it has a wide moulded doorway with elliptical arch and keystone, now blocked and containing a smaller door. Above is a window which has an architrave with round head and keystone. To the right is a modern garage entrance. At the far right is one bay which has 2-light flat-faced mullioned windows. Inside, the right-hand front room has a bolection- moulded stone fireplace. In the left-hand rear wing an open-well stair rises to the attic and has barley-sugar balusters, moulded handrail, and square newels with ball finials. The C18th extension has a shouldered fireplace with moulded cornice mantel, and a pine stair with closed string and splat balusters. A 1st floor room is lined with raised and fielded panelling. The stone fireplace is flanked by fluted pilasters and surmounted by a small swan-necked pediment in stone. The roof over this part of the house has hardwood king post trusses of C18th type.

Listing NGR: SD5730369908

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Legacy System number:: 182379
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.