Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls

Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls, Derby Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280604
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls
Statutory Address:: Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls, Derby Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1280604
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls
Statutory Address 1:: Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls, Derby Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls, Derby Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Swarkestone
National Grid Reference:: SK3741328468

Details

SK 32 NE 3/242

PARISH OF SWARKESTONE DERBY ROAD (south side) Swarkestone Old Hall and attached walls

10.11.67

GV II* Ruins of the old hall and attached garden walls. C16 and C18 with later alterations. Built for the Harpur family. Ashlar, rubble stone and red brick. Irregular rectangles of walls, mostly about 10 feet high, but low and ruinous in parts. The ruins of the old hall consists of one wall, standing roughly 20 feet high, constructed of rubble stone. The east face has three large four-centred arched fireplaces, one to ground floor and two above. One of the upper ones is finely moulded, and has brickwork to the back. There are also various other openings now difficult to distinguish. Attached to north side is a rubble wall with triangular sectioned copings and a four-centred arched doorcase to north end. Similar walls to south and west in a rectangle with another rectangle of walls attached to west of red brick and probably dating from the C18.

The old hall was abandoned after the Civil War when the Harpur family moved to Calke.

Listing NGR: SK3741328468

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Legacy System number:: 83228
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.