Ford Green Hall and attached wall and dovecote
Ford Green Hall, Ford Green Road, ST6 1NG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220313
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Green Hall and attached wall and dovecote
- Statutory Address:
- Ford Green Hall, Ford Green Road, ST6 1NG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220313
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Green Hall and attached wall and dovecote
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ford Green Hall, Ford Green Road, ST6 1NG
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:
- Ford Green Hall, Ford Green Road, ST6 1NG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 88739 50860
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 April 2021 to correct the description and reformat the text to current standards
SJ 85 SE
613-1/2/116
STOKE ON TRENT
SMALLTHORNE
Ford Green Road (north west side),
Ford Green Hall and attached wall and dovecote
02/10/51
II*
Former farmhouse, now museum. Late C16, with one wing added or replaced in early C18. Timber-framed with close studding to ground floor and small panels with lozenge and balustrading decoration above, on stone plinth and with plain tiled roofs. Two storeyed with attics; plan of hall and two cross wings with baffle entry, the wings dominating.
Left-hand wing has large three-light mullioned window to ground floor, windows of two- and three-lights in upper storey, jettied on moulded beam with enriched bosses at angles. The attic is also jettied out. Central bay has moulded beam carrying jettied upper section, and a three-light mullioned window to ground floor, two windows above. Projecting two storeyed gabled porch to the right of this bay, with doorway in side wall. Over the inner door is inscribed "Ralph Sutton, Carpenter".
Right-hand wing is a brick addition dated on a rainwater head, 1734 with initials H.F., probably replacing an original structure. Chimney in front coped gabled wall, flanked by mullioned and transomed windows. Rear elevation of central section and timber cross wing framed with close studding to ground floor and square panels above with arch and tension bracing. Lower brick range added to south west, dated 1728: a single-storeyed bay now open to the roof, though once with floor and attic. Adjoining this, a brick garden wall links the house to the dovecote, also early C18, a square on plan structure with a plain tiled roof.
INTERIOR of house: internal doorways on ground floor are ogival moulded archways with fleur de lys capping. Deep moulded beam with ogival chamfer stops in central bay. Fireplace in hall taken from Alton Towers. Panelled parlour, the panelling probably inserted in early C18. Two hollow-chamfered beams, carried on corbels. Staircase possibly original, or early C17, with splat balusters and newel posts with acorn caps. Queen-strut roof construction in timber-framed sections, Queen-post and strut in C18 range.
Listing NGR: SJ8873950860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384391
- 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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