HIGHLOW HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1311217
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: HIGHLOW HALL
Statutory Address:: HIGHLOW HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1311217
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: HIGHLOW HALL
Statutory Address 1:: HIGHLOW HALL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HIGHLOW HALL

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:: Highlow
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 21912 80096

Details

SK 28 SW PARISH OF HIGHLOW 2/61 29-9-51 Highlow Hall GV II*

Small manor house. Late C16 with mid C17 refashioning and late C18 additions. Mainly ashlar gritstone, with some coursed rubble work, with ashlar dressings, crenellated parapets to south west elevation, intermediate and gable end ashlar stacks, together with a massive external stack to north east side wall. Stone slates and Welsh slates. Irregular 'L' plan, obscured by alterations and additions. South west elevation; two storeys, four bays, with advanced two storey porch at junction of earlier house and later additions; Porch with moulded merlons to crenellations, above a dripmould to the head of an early C17 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned window with leaded lights. Below, a refashioned moulded surround to the doorway, with a planked and studded door. To the south east of the doorway, the gable of the added C18 range with C19 sash windows and casements. A single semi- circular headed light at first floor level accompanies a similar window in the adjacent C17 range. To the north west of the doorway, a two bay hall, with a two storey bay window to the end bay. Each hall bay has a tall 2-light chamfer mullioned window with leaded lights, below a stringcourse with a shallower 2-light opening above, below a stringcourse with embattled parapet above. The crenellations are returned around the north west corner, which is chamfered. The north east elevation has a catslide roof to the north west end, and a 3-light chamfer mullioned window with dripmould, above two plain doorways of different heights. Further to the south, an external stack shouldered on the south east side and with the seatings for two diagonally set stone chimneys, now removed. The adjoining C18 range has 2-light flush mullioned windows to the north west elevation, and sash windows without glazing bars to the south east front. A stone doorway with plain jambs to the north west elevation is enclosed by a C19 half glazed lean-to. Interior; the C17 range contains an unaltered two bay hall, with a cambered ceiling comprised of twelve panels framed with deeply undercut moulded beams. The hall has a C17 hearth with a massive chamfered flat lintel and quoins, with a doorway which has been cut into the rear wall of the hearth. There is a later smaller hearth with a plain surround to the north west gable. The hall also has a wide C17 turned baluster open well stair of two flights, leading to the former solar, now much obscured by C20 partitions, but containing a fine late C17 moulded hearth surround at the north east end. Elsewhere, various C17 panelled doors, and a moulded plaster cornice to the porch entrance.

Listing NGR: SK2191280096

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 81206
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.