Rowley Hall
ROWLEY HALL, ROWLEY AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212597
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Rowley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- ROWLEY HALL, ROWLEY AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1212597
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Rowley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROWLEY HALL, ROWLEY AVENUE
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:
- ROWLEY HALL, ROWLEY AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 91605 21913
Details
STAFFORD
SJ92SW ROWLEY AVENUE, Rowley Park 590-1/2/126 Rowley Hall 16/01/51
II
House, now hospital. c1817, by William Keen; extended c1910 and later. Ashlar with slate roofs and several ashlar stacks. Double-depth plan. Classical style. EXTERIOR: 2 windows; symmetrical 7-window range, including 3-window bowed centre. Platt band over ground floor; top cornice and blocking course. Entrance has overlight and paired half-glazed doors, similar fenestration to flanking windows, all in bowed tetrastyle Ionic porch. Windows have 12-pane horned sashes. 3-window left return similar, with hexastyle colonnade and French windows with small-paned overlights. Rear similar to front, but no porch. Range to right of 2 storeys; symmetrical 2-window range with 2-window projecting wings. Top band and blocking course. Central lateral stack with 1st floor panel; 12-pane horned sashes; inserted C20 entrance; wings have windows in tall recesses have moulded sills, aprons to ground floor windows, panels between floors. Further wing to right of single storey with attic; 4-window range; top cornice and mansard roof; 2 pairs of windows with 12-pane horned sashes and end roundels; 3 pedimented half dormers; C20 2-storey wing to right end Rears similar, single-storey range has 2 pedimented and 2 round-headed dormers; re-entrant conservatory with leaded glazing to upper panes and to belvedere. INTERIOR: round entrance hall with coved ceiling and 2 niches, paired inner doors with overlight with decorative glazing bars; ashlar cantilever stair with cast-iron balusters; two 1st floor fireplaces have columns and tiles, round mirrors to overmantels, one with cream and pink tiles and Doric columns, the other with blue tiles and Ionic columns; some low radiators with relief decoration. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 250).
Listing NGR: SJ9160521913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 250
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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