Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall

ENTRANCE STEPS TO MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164764
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall
Statutory Address:
ENTRANCE STEPS TO MAWDESLEY HALL, NEW STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164764
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:
Entrance Steps to Mawdesley Hall
Statutory Address 1:
ENTRANCE STEPS TO 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
ENTRANCE STEPS TO 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:
SD4977015078

Details

MAWDESLEY NEW STREET
SD 41 NE
8/164 Entrance steps to Mawdesley
Hall
22.10.52
GV II

Entrance steps with integral viewing platform on open-topped turret. Dated
1653 (see below). Sited on steep bank which separates garden above from
road below, the steps rising from the east parallel to the retaining wall
of the garden and landing at the open side of an enclosed platform on top
of a short turret projecting from the bank. Sandstone. Flight of 8 steps
protected on the outer side by a sloped parapet with roll-moulded coping,
which carries round the viewing platform and has looplights in the sides.
Said to incorporate a stone bearing the initials of Robert Mawdesley and
date 1653 (VCH Lancs VIp.98, with illustration), but now (1985) heavily
overgrown.


Listing NGR: SD4977015078

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184418
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 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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