Old Hall Farmhouse
OLD HALL FARMHOUSE, BLUNDELL'S LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1253242
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HALL FARMHOUSE, BLUNDELL'S LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1253242
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HALL FARMHOUSE, BLUNDELL'S 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:
- OLD HALL FARMHOUSE, BLUNDELL'S LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- St. Helens (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Rainhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48976 90254
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/06/2012
SJ 49 SE 7/37
2487
9.6.52
RAINHILL
RAINHILL
Blundell’s Lane
Old Hall Farmhouse
II*
Former Great Hall, converted to farmhouse and now derelict. C14-C19: north wing has
front of c1600 contains east end upper room of c1350 (formerly used as a chapel);
south-east outshut block of c1600 links north wing to south-west C19 rectangular addition.
C14 work coursed ashlar; C17 Flemish bond brick with stone quoins and details, C19 coursed
ashlar. Stone slate and Welsh slate pitched roofs. Symmetrical C17 north front has central
gabled entrance of 2 storeys breaking forward from 2 storey elevation. Massive stone quoins
and moulded string course at first floor level separates Flemish bond brick from C14 coursed
ashlar undercroft. Round-headed central entrance of dressed stone with altered 1st floor
and attic storey windows above. Original C17 7-light mullioned and transomed window
survives to upper floor of right bay, otherwise all fenestration scattered later insertions.
East gable has C17 5-light mullioned and transomed window with C19 inserted door to upper
storey, south elevation has 5-light transomed and mullioned window 1st storey, 4 light
inserted C17 mullioned window to C14 undercroft. Moulded floor course rises one course to
left of inserted door adjacent to junction with south-east C17 outshut which has catslide
roof. Single storey south elevation has 4-light mullioned window. South-west C19 2-storey
symmetrical front of 5 bays with central entrance. All windows 4-pane vertical sashes in
flat-faced monolith surrounds with projecting cills and keystones paired to each storey bays
1,2,4,5. Rear eastern elevation plain with one C19 upper window and added porched entry.
Interior of north wing contains C17 staircase to upper floor from entrance. The c1350 roof
timbers survive in 5 bays of the interior. Raised crunk with curved and braced collars with short struts above. No ridge piece, rafters meet above upper purlin. Central purlin braced
above and below principal rafters, with shaped braces forming quatrefoil panels containing
three rafters per square. Moulded wall plate and collar braces. The manor, of which the
Great Hall survives in part in this farmhouse, was originally an extensive sequence of
buildings built round a courtyard on a moated site, none of which survives intact. Included
in the listing are the C17 north front gate piers and wall. Archaeological Survey of
Merseyside, Merseyside County Museums File ref 4890/1; VCH Lancashire IV,370.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436397
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 370
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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