MAWDESLEY HALL

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:: MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET

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Official list entry

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

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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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

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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.