Wardle Old Hall
WARDLE OLD HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312857
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wardle Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WARDLE OLD HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312857
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wardle Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WARDLE OLD HALL
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:
- WARDLE OLD HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wardle
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 61183 57130
Details
SJ 65 NW WARDLE C.P. WARDLE
3/79 Wardle Old Hall
10 June 1952
GV II*
Originally a farmhouse now a private house, early C18. Red brick in Flemish Bond with slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays. Ogee moulded stone plinth. Giant Doric pilasters to quoins and flanking the central entrance bay. The entrance has a stone doorcase, eared top and bottom, a keystone with foliage motif, a pulvinated frieze -and pediment with dentil cornice. This contains a four panel door with lower panels raised and fielded and upper panels glazed. Slightly recessed sashes with stone sills and sunk brick panel below, glazing bars and gauged skewback flat heads. The centre bay, first floor, window has stone key with grain motif. Moulded stone gutter cornice between the pilaster caps which have triglyphs and guttae. The roof has lead hips and two symetrically placed stacks with arch-headed sunken panels. There are built-up window openings in the north and south gables. At the rear (east) there is a 2-storey, 2-bay wing of red brick with roof of large slates; the ridge of this section is at main house eaves level. Interior: The rear wing has chamfered beams and exposed ceiling joists also original roof trusses. There are wide three-panel doors in the main building on unusual "H" hinges with a single long leg. Graded II* for the high quality of the Baroque facade.
Listing NGR: SJ6118357130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 56838
- 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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