Ellel Grange
ELLEL GRANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317896
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Ellel Grange
- Statutory Address:
- ELLEL GRANGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317896
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jun-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Ellel Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELLEL GRANGE
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:
- ELLEL GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellel
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48086 53764
Details
SD 45 SE ELLEL
12/80 Ellel Grange 7-6-1979
GV II
Country house, now hydro, 1857-9, probably by John Weightman, for William Preston. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Italian villa style. 2 storeys. Ground floor has channelled rustication; and a cornice over. 1st floor has rusticated quoins and a bracketed cornice with balustrade. Windows sashed with no glazing bars, and architraves, those on the 1st floor with segmental heads. North-west, entrance, front has 3-storey tower. To its left are 2 bays, the ground floor having a tripartite window flanked by smaller windows. To the right and set back are 3 bays. Tower has rusticated corner pilaster strips and a bracketed cornice. On the 2nd floor there is a 3-light window on each side. Its 1st floor window has a cornice on brackets. The doorway has a segmental head and is flanked by paired rusticated Tuscan columns. Above the entablature is a coat of arms. The south-west facade is of 4 bays, the outer bays projecting and with a bay window in the right-hand bay. The south-east facade is of 7 bays, the central bay flanked by paired antae on the ground floor, and with a single-storey canted bay window in the 2nd bay. Protecting forwards to the right is a tall slim tower withy a battered rusticated basement storey, rusticated corner pilaster strips, and paired round-headed windows on each side under a cornice. Interior not fully accessible at time of survey, but large entrance hall contains columns and antae of red granite, plasterwork, and an Imperial stair with cast iron balustrade.
Listing NGR: SD4808653764
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182153
- 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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