Mawdesley Hall
MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1164720
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mawdesley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1164720
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mawdesley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET
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.
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:
- MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mawdesley
- National Grid Reference:
- SD4977015105
Details
MAWDESLEY NEW STREET
SD 41 NE
8/162 Mawdesley Hall
22.10.52
GV I
Lesser gentry "hall" house, subsequently farmhouse, now house. Probably
early C17, dated 1625 and 1655 internally, altered, with wings of C18 and
C19; recently renovated. Hallrange timber framed on stone plinth, left
wing of sandstone with quoins, right wing of brick with stone quoins, roof
of stone-coloured tiles hipped over front of wings. H-plan: 2-bay
hallrange with 2-bay crosswings. Two storeys; hallrange of irregular 4-bay
post and truss construction, with coved jetty to 1st floor, coved eaves,
straight arch-bracing to the wallplate, ornamental herringbone bracing in
the lower panels of the upper floor and one panel of the ground floor,
carved scrolled consoles to the wallposts at ground floor; entrance at
right hand end by altered arched doorway with arch-glazed side lights, over
this a row of small panels with convex corner bracing continued to the left
over a chevron-patterned panel in the 3rd bay; 2 windows in left half,
raised on short studs, each of 10 lights with wooden mullions and transom,
filling the bays; 1st floor has intermediate posts and 3 inserted 2-light
casements. Rear of this range of simpler post and rail construction with
some straight bracing to the wallplate, has in 2nd bay a large external
stone chimney stack offset at eaves level and terminating in 2 rebuilt
chimneys. Left crosswing has a 1st floor band and raised quoins, a window
on each floor, both vertical rectangular with moulded architraves and
keystones, glazed as crosswindows with casement openings and glazing bars;
roof swept over eaves: left return wall has one similar window on each
floor, the lower altered as French windows. Right wing has C19 windows
altered as top-hung casements. Each wing has a chimney in the centre of
the ridge. Interior: diminutive storeyed hall, with entrance lobby and
staircase in 4th bay, timber framed partition to the hall itself, which has
2 lateral beams with rounded chamfer, supported by brackets from the
wallposts, walls on 3 sides wainscotted to 3/4 height in 3 stages of muntin
and rail panelling with scored lozenge decoration in the panels;
Tudor-arched stone fireplace in middle bay of rear wall, the lintel
lettered 1625 (= William Mawdesley), decorated moulded plaster overmantel
W M
with Mawdesley arms, helm and cresting, date 16 55 at top and initials
R M at bottom (= Robert Mawdesley); old oak staircase apparently
remodelled or moved; timber-framed partition wall to right wing with 1st
floor doorway indicating contemporary continuation or wing formerly in this
position; 1st floor of hallpart laterally partitioned in the centre (i.e.
not vertically aligned with partition at ground floor), with covex bracing
to the tie beam; windbraced roof; moulded Tudor-arched hall-chamber
fireplace; studded batten and board doors with ornamental strap hinges.
Reference: VCH Lancs VI pp. 97-8.
Listing NGR: SD4977015105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184416
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 97-98
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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