Drywood Hall
DRYWOOD HALL, WORSLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288300
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drywood Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DRYWOOD HALL, WORSLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288300
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drywood Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRYWOOD HALL, WORSLEY 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:
- DRYWOOD HALL, WORSLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 75443 00548
Details
WORSLEY WORSLEY ROAD SD 70 SE (north side) 2/72 Drywood Hall - II -
House, now Bridgewater School. "BT 1855" above door. Timber-framed with slate and graduated stone slate roof. 6 bays and 2 storeys with wings to rear possibly of an incorporating earlier work and C20 addition to left which is not included in this entry. Picturesquely composed asymmetrical elevation with 2-storey porch in bay 3, gables in bays 1 and 5 and gabled dormer windows in bays 2 and 4. Gabled porch, the upper room resting on circular columns via carved brackets. The panelling in the gable is decorative and below the 5-light timber mullion window is the Bridgewater coat of arms. The principal room in bay 4 has an 8-light mullion and transom window which is set in behind an enriched bressumer on carved diagonal braces. Other windows are 4 and 5-light mullion and transoms on the ground floor (the latter a square bay window) and 3 and 4-light mullioned windows on the first floor. 4 brick ridge chimney stacks with diagonally set shafts. A 5-light window at rear with arched lights and flush chamfered mullions may be reused from an earlier building. Interior: panelled doors, a timber staircase, various fire surrounds in stone and cast iron and ovolo-moulded ceiling beams to the principal room which has a neo-Jacobean fire surround. In the C16 an earlier house on the site was the home of the Massey family.
Listing NGR: SD7544300548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400063
- 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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