SCALE HALL

SCALE HALL, MORECAMBE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298365
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1953
List Entry Name:: SCALE HALL
Statutory Address:: SCALE HALL, MORECAMBE ROAD

Scale Hall. A Manor House, built circa 1700 & altered in the 20th century. Once used as a restaurant & country club. — Uploaded by Ashley Preston This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Almost 350,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298365
Date first listed:: 22-Dec-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: SCALE HALL
Statutory Address 1:: SCALE HALL, MORECAMBE 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:: SCALE HALL, MORECAMBE ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 46379 62621

Details

LANCASTER

SD46SE MORECAMBE ROAD 1685-1/1/192 (South side) 22/12/53 Scale Hall (Formerly Listed as: MORECAMBE ROAD Scale Hall Farmhouse and Stables)

GV II

Small manor house, now restaurant and country club. c1700, altered C20. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof. L-plan formed by 3-unit front range with rear wing. 2 storeys and 5 bays, symmetrical, with raised quoins, and bands above the windows on both floors. The central doorway, up 4 steps, has a shouldered architrave with pulvinated frieze and broken pediment, plus 10-panel door with overlight. All windows on both floors have moulded architraves. Those at ground floor to the right are taller, all the ground-floor sashes have 8 large panes, while those above have 18 small panes. The roof has 2 small skylights in each slope, gable copings, and gable chimneys, and a 3rd chimney rises from the rear wall. Rear: wing at south end, with a large single-storey lean-to in the angle. At 1st-floor of main range, 2 windows like those at the front, and a small window between them. Doorway at junction of side wall of lean-to, and a small square window in each wall. The re-entrant of the wing has remains of former windows in vertical alignment close to the junction. The rear gable of the wing has staggered stair windows on 4 levels, all recessed cross-windows except the 3rd, which is sashed, and a 2-light mullioned attic window. The wing has a ridge chimney. INTERIOR: some partition walls removed, but parlour in front left room is fully panelled: raised and fielded panels, with pilasters, pulvinated frieze, and moulded cornice; a cross-corner fireplace with bolection-moulded surround; and a secret cupboard in the panelling on the opposite wall. The former kitchen to the rear at the same end has 3 large roughly-shaped beams, and a large segmental-arched stone inglenook fireplace with bolection-moulded surround. The staircase in the wing is doglegged to the full height, has a closed string, slim turned balusters, and moulded handrail, and is contained by a timber-framed partition wall.

Listing NGR: SD4637962621

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Legacy System number:: 383223
Legacy System:: LBS

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