Dunwood Hall, Entrance Steps and Urns
DUNWOOD HALL, ENTRANCE STEPS AND URNS, A 53
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191193
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dunwood Hall, Entrance Steps and Urns
- Statutory Address:
- DUNWOOD HALL, ENTRANCE STEPS AND URNS, A 53
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191193
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dunwood Hall, Entrance Steps and Urns
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNWOOD HALL, ENTRANCE STEPS AND URNS, A 53
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:
- DUNWOOD HALL, ENTRANCE STEPS AND URNS, A 53
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 94679 54442
Details
LONGSDON C.P. A53 SJ 95 SW 11/124 Dunwood Hall, - entrance steps and urns
GV II
House. Dated 1871 by Robert Scrivener for Thomas Hulme, a local potter. Rock-faced stone with smooth yellow sandstone dressings and quoins; slate roof; cast iron decorative ridges; verge parapets; cast iron guttering in imitation of decorated eaves band; side stack to front and end stack to right. High Gothic in style and roughly 'L'-shaped in form with a radial plan extending from a central hall. 2 storeys and attic, with 3-storey entrance tower to right of centre, dividing frontage into 2 parts. Slightly higher eaves to left portion which is itself divided in centre by projecting side stack; single range of windows tucked between stack and tower; gabled 2-light 'Y'-tracery half-dormer over 2 stone chamfered mullion and transom windows. Slightly projecting tower porch with French-style, truncated and crested hipped roof; heavily moulded cornice with gargoyles at angles over quatrefoil medallioned frieze; raised strings at floor levels; 3 central grouped, pointed narrow lights to top stage over stone mullioned and transomed 3-sided oriel on heavily moulded base, flanked by 2 shields on the left with low-relief Hulme coat-of-arms to right inscribed "TH/1871"; steeply pointed 4-centred arched doorpiece with label and hood, moulded intrados, inner and outer shafts with foliaged capitals, half-glazed door with cast iron decoration behind glazing, trefoil-headed side-lights and overlight with trefoils and quatrefoil in tympanum; fleur-de-lys finial; large egg-cup shaped grotesque, heavily carved urns flank entrance steps; set back right-hand portion of house with single-light pointed-arch window to left of first floor against tower; single range of windows offset to right; gabled 2-light dormer window with pointed relieving arch and inset cinquefoil in tympanum over 2 chamfer mullion and transom 3-light windows. Interior: entrance leads through vestibule to inner glazed entrance screen of central hall, extensively toplit; first floor gallery with cast iron balustrading; Minton, patterned encaustic tile floor; columnated granite and stone fireplace; heavy, turned-baluster staircase offset beyond hall to south. Elaborate fleuron cornices to rooms to south of hall.
Listing NGR: SJ9467954442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275333
- 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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