Harracles Hall
Harracles Hall, Longsdon
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191166
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Harracles Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Harracles Hall, Longsdon
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191166
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Harracles Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Harracles Hall, Longsdon
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:
- Harracles Hall, Longsdon
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Longsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 95574 57297
Details
SJ 96 NE
9/118
LONGSDON C.P.
Harracles Hall
1.2.67
GV
II*
Small country house. Early C18 with C20 alterations and additions. Red brick; stone dressings; hipped red tile roof; panelled corniced brick ridge stacks.
L-shaped plan. Original entrance front to west: two-storey, 2:3:2 front; cross casements with bolection surrounds; Nos. 2, 3, 6 and 7 blocked to first floor and 2, 5 and 6 to ground floor; moulded plinth and eaves band; raised string at first floor level stopped short of rusticated even quoins at angles and even quoins of the three-bay centre break surmounted by pediment with low-relief festooned cartouche in tympanum (C20 stack to right of pediment); central entrance with moulded surround, enlarged keystone and corbelled, and broken segmental pediment (now blocked by casement window).
Former five-bay south elevation now with alternate cross windows blocked, thus reducing the number of windows to three to each floor, rusticated even quoins and string at first floor level.
Interior: oak staircase to centre of south side in panelled stair hall; dog-leg layout, turned balusters, open, scroll-finished string, handrail and dados ramped at angles.
The house was built for Josiah Wedgewood shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Shaw of Blackwood in Horton C.P.
Listing NGR: SJ9557457297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275327
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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