Oakmere Hall
OAKMERE HALL, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313106
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Oakmere Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OAKMERE HALL, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313106
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Oakmere Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAKMERE HALL, CHESTER 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:
- OAKMERE HALL, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Delamere and Oakmere
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59054 70451
Details
OAKMERE C.P. CHESTER ROAD SJ 57 SE (North Side) 4/23 Oakmere Hall 6/1/1978 II
Formerly large house, now a hospital: dated 1867 by John Douglas for John Higson, a Liverpool merchant, with later addition. French Baronial style. Long rectangular plan. 2-storey, 9-bay west front. Entrance behind 2-storey porte cochere finished as a gatehouse. Octagonal pilasters end as turrets, broad arched openings on 3 sides and rib vaulting internally. Oriel window at 1st floor. Bays to either side carry balustrade on a corbel table, and have a mixture of 2 and 3-light windows, some divided by colonnettes. 2 tall double lancets light the stairwell. At the right end is a circular projection with a tall conical roof and at the left end an octagonal turret with a tall pyramidal roof. Garden front uses similar motifs but is partly hidden by C20 extensions. It includes a massive 3-storey tower with an embattled parapet and a truncated pyramidal roof with wrought-iron balustrade. The tower, which is dated, is carried higher by an octagonal turret. Interior: entry into a porch with ceiling beams on stone corbels. Hall to the right through a 3-bay, semi-circular arcade, is panelled with bolection moulded fireplace and a fine cast-iron grate. The hall is open to the roof with 1st floor gallery on 4 sides with a balustrade. It is top lit by a large rectangular lantern carried on arch braces. Hall also contains the open well staircase with twisted balusters. The other main rooms on the ground floor have borders to the ceiling and shouldered architraves to the fireplaces. The former billiard room at 1st floor is open to the roof with arch-braced trusses and a chimney breast with carved hunting scenes.
Listing NGR: SJ5905470451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57449
- 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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