Maer Hall and Attached Garden Wall to South
MAER HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206392
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Maer Hall and Attached Garden Wall to South
- Statutory Address:
- MAER HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206392
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Maer Hall and Attached Garden Wall to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAER HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH
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:
- MAER HALL AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL TO SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Maer
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 79207 38332
Details
SJ 73 NE MAER
408/9/97 Maer Hall and attached garden
Wall to south (formerly listed
30.07.64 As Maer Hall)
GV II
Country house and garden wall. House: mid-C17, considerably altered and
extended mid-to-late C19 with the addition of wings by W. Culshaw and
later J. Francis Doyle of Liverpool, although now again reduced to its
original size. Mainly yellow sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth,
stone slate roofs; the only original stonework is to the cellars (red
sandstone on east side), which also retain their original mullioned
openings. C19 work in Jacobean style. 2 and 3 storeys over cellars.
West garden front: 2 storeys with 3 shaped full dormers surmounted
by globe finials above moulded eaves cornice; 1:1:1:1:1 bays, windows
all mullioned and transomed, those to left and right dormers with stepped
lights; central 2-storeyed porch with round-headed doorway and applied
Doric columns, changing above to Ionic order; openwork balustrade to
top carried around eaves, connecting dormers; 2 sandstone ashlar stacks
behind ridge with paired rebated shafts. North front: 1:1:1 bays,
again with mullioned and transomed windows and shaped gabled dormers;
mid-C20 central single-storeyed porch with applied columns above.
East front: 2 storeys and attic storey plus a further lit roof space;
1:1:1:1 bays, also with mullioned and transomed windows but with 3
plain gables to attic storey, incorporating upper gable lights. Late
C19 flat-roofed porch (probably owing its present appearance to the
reduction of the Victorian work) against south side with a coped stone
garden wall attached to south. Interior: not inspected, but said
to have been considerably altered in 1960's when many of the Victorian
fittings were removed.
NOTE: Maer Hall was the home of Josiah Wedgwood the younger from 1804 to 1843. Josiah Wedgwood the elder's daughter Susannah was the the mother of Charles Darwin, who married his cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839. Charles Darwin was a frequent visiter to Maer Hall, where he is reputed to have made some of his early geological and botanical studies.
Maer Hall was also the home of F.J. Harrison, the Liverpool ship
owner, in late C19, and it was for him that Doyle extended the hall.
B.O.E., p. 201.
Listing NGR: SJ7920738332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 362707
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 201
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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