Himley Hall
HIMLEY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230781
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Himley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HIMLEY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1230781
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Himley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIMLEY HALL
- Statutory Address 2:
- HIMLEY HALL, DUDLEY ROAD
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:
- HIMLEY HALL
- Statutory Address:
- HIMLEY HALL, DUDLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- South Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Himley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 88824 91561
Details
HIMLEY C.P. DUDLEY ROAD (north) SO 89 SE 5/59 Himley Hall 16.6.53 II* Country house. Early C18, enlarged 1824-7 by William Atkinson. Ashlar; hipped slate roofs, rendered stacks. Principal range aligned north-south; Atkinson added flanking wings on an east-west alignment, attached to the main house by short links; the resulting structure encloses 3 sides of an eastern entrance courtyard. West front. Early C18 central block: 3 storeys with balustraded parapet and giant pilasters at the corners and to each side of a central pedimented projection; 2:3:2 bays, glazing bar sashes with aprons, bracketed sills, and raised architraves and keystones. Flanking 2-storey, 3-bay links, and single-bay wing ends framed by paired Doric pilasters; glazing bar sashes with bracketed sills and raised architraves; eaves cornice and plain parapets. South front. 2 storeys with eaves cornice and plain parapet; 9 bays defined by giant Doric pilasters, central 3-bay Ionic portico with unfluted columns, glazing bar sashes with bracketed sills and raised architraves. East front. Deeply recessed 3-storey central block with giant corner pilasters, eaves cornice and balustraded parapet. Boldly projecting 2-storey flanking wings with plain parapets stepped up in the centre. 5:7:5 windows, glazing bar sashes with raised architraves and bracketed sills, second floor windows have a sill band. Central C19 eight-panel door with rectangular overlight and pedimented architrave with flanking columns. Interior. Entrance Hall. Early C18 fireplace with eared wooden surround. Central boxed beam on paired Ionic pilasters. Plaster cornice with egg and dart mouldings and dentils. Early C18 dog-leg staircase immediately north of entrance hall, with closed string, turned balusters, ramped handrail and dado with bolection moulded panels. Large room to west of entrance hall has pilasters with acanthus leaf and palmette capitals and arabesque frieze. On the first floor are several bedrooms with large painted wooden wall panels and egg and dart and dentilled cornice; early C18 fireplace one with bolection moulded surround. The other has an egg and dart moulded surround, console brackets and an overmantle with volutes. Early C19 fireplace with reeded surround and corner blocks with roundels. In the south wing at ground floor level is a room with oak wall panelling approximately 6 feet in height incorporating an oak fireplace surround flanked by 2 pairs of Ionic columns with console brackets above each supporting a bold cornice. 6-panel doors with egg and dart moulded panels, and overmantel with egg and dart moulded cornice. Charles Cope Tubshaw is recorded as having made chimney pieces for Himley Hall. Colvin, p.838; B.o.E. p. 147.
Listing NGR: SO8882491561
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 405813
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 838
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 147
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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