Scale Hall
SCALE HALL, MORECAMBE ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383223
- 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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