Austerson Old Hall
AUSTERSON OLD HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312735
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Austerson Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- AUSTERSON OLD HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1312735
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Austerson Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- AUSTERSON OLD HALL
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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:
- AUSTERSON OLD HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alvanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 50992 73449
Details
ALVANLEY C.P. YARRANGALL GREEN SJ 57 SW 5/24 Austerson Old Hall. II Hall (dismantled and removed from Austerson, Crewe and Nantwich Borough, and re-erected at Alvanley 1980 s) probably mid C16. Oak small framing with rendered panels; brown brick; clay tile roof not completed at time of inspection (1984). 3-storey 1-room cross-wing; long wing of 2 storeys plus attic with 2 rooms to lower storey. The cross-wing is of oak small-framing with closely spaced studs and 1 rail to each storey, on flush plinth partly of old brick, partly tooled sandstone. Jetties at 1st and 2nd floors with replaced ovolo bressumers; 4 old carved bressumer brackets. Long wing has brick cavity walls to lower storey with narrow-panel small framing above. Ridge chimney at junction of wings; lateral chimney on long wing, both of brick. South east doorway in middle of long wing; north west doorway by junction with cross wing. 2 oak-mullioned leaded casements to each main storey in long face of cross-wing and 1 replaced window to each storey in each gable end; 2 windows to each main storey and gabled dormer to attic in north west side of long wing; to each main storey and 1 to attic in end gable; 1 to lower storey and 3 to upper storey in south east side. Interior: Cross-wing has 2 ogee-stopped ovolo beams to each storey and queenpost central truss carrying purlins with scarf joints locked over principal rafters; brought-in sandstone fireplaces. The long wing, the lower storey of brick, was of almost wholly reused oak timbers in upper storey, attic and roof. The oak joists dovetailed into the assorted ovolo and slightly hollow-chamfered beams. An inglenook in the,lower storey with altered ovolo-fronted tapered bressumer. The internal structure indicate the cross-wing as Elizabethan and the long wing a C17 addition using reused timbers. The original entrance to Elizabethan portion is from present lobby. The reconstruction has been carefully executed using original timbers, old brick and tile wherever possible.
Listing NGR: SJ5099273449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57170
- 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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