WHESTON HALL, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288177
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: WHESTON HALL, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS
Statutory Address:: WHESTON HALL, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 1999-10-14
Reference:: IOE01/01704/23
Rights:: © Mr CA Packham. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1288177
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: WHESTON HALL, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: WHESTON HALL, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WHESTON HALL, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Wheston
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 13260 76370

Details

SK 17 NW PARISH OF WHESTON 3/42 ?9.9.5i Wheston Hall, gate piers and boundary walls (formerly listed as Wheston Hall)

II

Farmhouse, formerly country house. Mid=C18, incorporating C17 fragments and having been totally remodelled in mid-C20. Coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings projecting quoins, plain gables, intermediate and gable ridge stacks of stone, and concrete tiles to roof. Two storeys, six bays, with off-centre advanced bay with moulded cornice to parapet. Sash windows without glazing bars, in flush stone surrounds, Advanced bay has semi-circular headed opening with keyblock and radiating glazing bars to head of window frame. Off-centre doorway with moulded architrave and pediment supported by moulded brackets. C20 half glazed door. Low garden wall with saddleback copings incorporating stone gate piers, square on plan, and with a moulded band and projecting moulded caps with cone finials. Monopitch roofed projection at east end, formerly a projecting two bay wing with C17 storeys. History: the house was formerly an eight bay country house of three storeys, with a parapet and full height advanced stair towers to each side of the then central doorway, The two bays at either end projected beyond the staircase bays.

Listing NGR: SK1326076370

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 400379
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.