Sweeney Hall
SWEENEY HALL, A 483
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307655
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sweeney Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SWEENEY HALL, A 483
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307655
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sweeney Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWEENEY HALL, A 483
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:
- SWEENEY HALL, A 483
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 29320 26545
Details
SJ 22 NE OSWESTRY RURAL C.P. A 483 (east side)
5/150 Sweeney Hall -
GV II
Country house, now hotel. 1805 (datestone to right return) incorporating parts of a late C18 building; extended c.1860 with later additions and alterations. Main building ashlar with earlier red brick service range and outbuildings to rear; low-pitched hipped slate roof with stone ridge stacks hidden behind moulded eaves parapet. 2 storeys; continuous floor band with giant Tuscan pilasters to corners and flanking central porch; 5 x 3 bays, sash windows, those on first floor to front and right return without glazing bars, tall 15-paned sashes to ground floor (dummy windows on each floor to centre and right bays of left return and to centre on right return); canted entrance porch (probably slightly later) has glazing bar sashes to either side of 6-panel door with flanking pilasters; rectangular overlight has C19 stained glass armorial shield with legend "Dread Shame". L-shaped service range to rear (altered in late C19 but with glazing bar sashes and gauged heads) has single-storey yellow-brick corridor extension on south linking main house with Jacobean-style east wing of c.1860: also yellow brick with mullioned windows and prominent red brick ridge and end stacks with shafts of star section. Interior: open-well stone staircase with latticed cast-iron balustrade lit by oval cupola (now with fibreglass glazing); fine plaster frieze to ceiling of left ground- floor room (former library) and further friezes to former drawing room and dining room on right side of house; wooden vaulting in corridor linking main house with east wing said to be based on that in corridors of the House of Commons. The house is set in a fine parkland landscape. B.O.E., p. 300.
Listing NGR: SJ2932026545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255626
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 300
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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