Morthen Hall
MORTHEN HALL, MORTHEN HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192970
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Morthen Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MORTHEN HALL, MORTHEN HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192970
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Morthen Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTHEN HALL, MORTHEN HALL LANE
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:
- MORTHEN HALL, MORTHEN HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Whiston
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 47886 89476
Details
SK48NE WHISTON MORTHEN HALL LANE (north side) 8/102 Morthen Hall 29.3.68 GV II* Country house. Early C18, wings later. Dressed sandstone, Welsh slate. Symmetrical facade: main range 2 storeys with attics, 7 bays; lower side wings, 2 storeys, 3 bays. Main range: plinth, large projecting quoins. Part-glazed, panelled door in shouldered and eared architrave with rectangular panel above and segmental pediment. Flanking windows are all sashes with glazing bars in slightly projecting surrounds with bead-moulded inner arrises and moulded sills. lst-floor band. Apron panel to central window which has moulded sill, shouldered and eared architrave, console-shaped keystone and cornice. Other windows as ground floor. 5-bay pediment, in tympanum oculus with glazing bars in architrave. Balustrade above outer bays terminating at die with depressed-scroll brackets. Hipped roof with corniced ashlar ridge stacks. Wing to left, set back: plinth at ground-floor sill level, 3 sashes with glazing bars in quoined surrounds with flat arches. lst-floor sill band beneath 3 small 6-pane casements. Cornice. Hipped roof with elongated corniced ashlar ridge stack. Wing to right: similar but with margin-light sashes to ground floor, compact ridge stack. Rear: large round-arched stair window to left of centre has rusticated quoined surround to large sash with Gothick glazing bars. Interior: well-preserved, including room to front left with marble fireplace, Composite pilasters, modillioned cornice and panelled plaster ceiling. Stone- paved inner entrance hall with archivolts to side doors; wood staircase with curved iron balusters. Landing with bolection-moulded door surrounds, ornate Doric frieze. Several other good fireplaces including one to lst-floor rear right with ogee-arched panel and Blue John inlay. Service stairs with splat and turned balustrades. Unaltered service wing to left retains original C19 fittings including kitchen ranges and hand pump. Former home of the Athorpe and Middleton-Carver families. An 1809 inventory for the house exists. Athorpe Muniments 1544, Sheffield City Library, Archives.
Listing NGR: SK4788689476
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335738
- 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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