Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall
GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AT HAMSTALL HALL, BLITHBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190607
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AT HAMSTALL HALL, BLITHBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1190607
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse and Attached Courtyard Walls at Hamstall Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AT HAMSTALL HALL, BLITHBURY ROAD
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:
- GATEHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AT HAMSTALL HALL, BLITHBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hamstall Ridware
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 10482 19424
Details
HAMSTALL RIDWARE C.P. BLITHBURY ROAD (north- SK 1019-1119 east side)
Gatehouse and attached 12/30 courtyard walls at Hamstall Hall (formerly 27.2.64 listed as Gateway at Hamstall Hall)
GV II*
Gatehouse and walls. Late C16. Red brick (English bond) with ashlar quoins and dressings. A pair of octagonal turrets, each with ogee- moulded cornice and stone dome, flank a rusticated semi-circular gate arch with raised key and strapwork parapet. Each turret has an inserted 2-light chamfer-mullioned window with straight hood mould looking towards the gateway approach. To the rear of each turret is a Tudor-arch doorway with sunken spandrels. Attached lengths of coped walling enclose the north-east and north-west sides of the main courtyard at Hamstall Hall (q.v.). The gatehouse is in the centre of the north-west wall. The north-east wall is terminated at the south-east end by a tower (q.v.). Adjacent to the tower are indications of former buildings ranged along the inside of the walls. These include the remains of 2 early C16 windows, a bay window of 3 and the other of 4 light, both with basket- arch lights and ogee-moulded mullions and surrounds. Interior. Nesting boxes have been cut out of the walls to convert the gate turrets to dovecotes. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. I.M. Ferris, 'A Survey of Hamstall Hall, Staffordshire' South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions vol. XXVI (1984-5) pp. 44-75.
Listing NGR: SK1048419424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 272876
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions in South Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society Transactions, Vol. 26, (1984), 44-75
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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