Remains of Wansley Hall
REMAINS OF WANSLEY HALL, WANSLEY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274462
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Wansley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF WANSLEY HALL, WANSLEY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1274462
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of Wansley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF WANSLEY HALL, WANSLEY HILL
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:
- REMAINS OF WANSLEY HALL, WANSLEY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Ashfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Selston
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 46139 51308
Details
SK 45 SE SELSTON WANSLEY HILL (south side) 5/73 Remains of Wansley Hall GV II The list description should be amended to read:- Ruined remains of medieval manor house C13,C16,late C17 and early C18,C19. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone and brick, with remains of internal timber framing. Partial chamfered plinth, ashlar quoins and dressings. Remains of square central stack and side wall stack, brick. 2 storeys, 3 unequal bays. L-plan, former hall on east-west axis, with later projecting wing to south. North front has 2 square openings, that to right blocked. Above, 2, 3 light keeled mullioned windows. east side has remains of projecting gable to right. To left, doorway and small casement. To their right, remains of mullioned casement. To right again, broken opening and early C19 door with flat hood. To right again, a casement on each floor. West side has projecting wing to left, with square opening in plinth. To its right, basement level doorway. Rear wing, to right, has 2 square openings. Above, to left, a window. Interior has transverse close studded wall with sill and span beams.Remains of C16 herring bone brick fireback on south wall. North wall has window opening with timber lintel. Rear wing has C19 ashlar fireplace. In east brick wall the remains of 3 C17 plain stone mullioned windows with drip moulds survive plus an early C18 doorway. Late C18 plank door. West wall has a re-set corbel. This building incorporates the remains of the C13, first floor hall house built for the de Wandeslie family. Owned by the Gratton family from 1320, and by the mid C16 by the Middleton family. Passed by marriage to the Howitt family in the early C17, and sold by them before 1660. The building was a farmhouse in the C19 and was finally abandoned in 1960. Now a roofless ruin. Consolidated 1987.
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SK 45 SE SELSTON WANSLEY HILL (south side) 5/73 Remains of Wansley Hall GV II Ruined remains of medieval manor house C13,C16,late C17 and early C18,C19. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone and brick, with remains of internal timber framing. Partial chamfered plinth, ashlar quoins and dressings. Remains of square central stack and side wall stack, brick. 2 storeys, 3 unequal bays. L-plan, former hall on east-west axis, with later projecting wing to south. North front has 2 square openings, that to right blocked. Above, 2, 3 light keeled mullioned windows. east side has remains of projecting gable to right. To left, doorway and small casement. To their right, remains of mullioned casement. To right again, broken opening and early C19 door with flat hood. To right again, a casement on each floor. West side has projecting wing to left, with square opening in plinth. To its right, basement level doorway. Rear wing, to right, has 2 square openings. Above, to left, a window. Interior has trandverse close studded wall with sill and span beams. Remains of C16 herring bone brick fireback on south wall. North wall has window opening with timber lintel. Rear wing has C19 ashlar fireplace. In east brick wall the remains of 3 C17 plain stone mullioned windows with drip moulds survive plus an early C18 doorway. Late C18 plank door. West wall has a re-set corbel. This building incorporates the remains of the C13, first floor hall house built for the de Wandeslie family. Owned by the Gratton family from 1320, and by the mid C16 by the Middleton family. Passed by marriage to the Howitt family in the early C17, and sold by them before 1660. The building was a farmhouse in the C19 and was finally abandoned in 1960. Now a roofless ruin. Consolidated 1987.
Listing NGR: SK4613951308
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415164
- 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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