Kenley Hall
KENLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175503
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kenley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- KENLEY HALL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175503
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kenley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENLEY HALL
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:
- KENLEY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kenley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 56338 00708
Details
KENLEY C.P. KENLEY SJ 50 SE 4/69 Kenley Hall GV II
Manor house, now farmhouse. Circa 1639 for William Carter, with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed gritstone rubble with red sandstone dressings, machine tile roof. 2 storeys over semi-basement kitchen, attics; 3-bay front; 2- 3- and 4-light double-chamfered mullion windows; gabled dormer in roof slope to centre; tall late C19 gabled red brick porch with lateral steps to left between second and third bays from left gives access to semi-basement kitchen and principal floor; prominent integral stack to centre of back wall, formerly with 3 octagonal brick shafts, now has 3 late C19 rebated red brick shafts, subsidiary integral red brick end stack behind ridge to left; gables re-built in late C19 red brick. 2-storey kitchen range at right-angles to rear added c. 1913. Interior: timber framed cross-walls. (square panels) to principal and first floors, chamfered ceiling beams throughout with bar stops; fireplace in main room on principal floor has wooden lintel with inscription "William Carter 1639" carved on it, moulded wooden overmantel; also in this room some contemporary oak panelling with inset cupboards (butterfly hinges) and fleur-de-lys pointed strap hinges (dated 1639) from former doors; C19 open-well staircase probably in position of original staircase; 3-bay roof also reconstructed in late C19 but retains original double purlins and straight windbraces. V.C.H. VIII (1968) pp.94-5.
Listing NGR: SJ5633800708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258852
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1968), 94-5
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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