Old Well Hall
OLD WELL HALL, 15,16,17 AND 18
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318034
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Well Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD WELL HALL, 15,16,17 AND 18
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1318034
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Old Well Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD WELL HALL, 15,16,17 AND 18
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:
- OLD WELL HALL, 15,16,17 AND 18
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Downham
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78574 44159
Details
SD 78 44 DOWNHAM DOWNHAM VILLAGE
13/22 Nos, 15, 16, 17 and 18 (Old Well Hall) (Formerly listed as Old Well Hall) 29.12.1952 GV II*
Row of 3 houses, formerly one, C17th. Rubble with sandstone dressings and stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attic. Windows double-chamfered with mullions and hoods. No,15 (at the left) has a 5-light window on each floor. At the right on the 1st floor is a chamfered window surround of C19th type. Below is a door with chamfered surround of C19th type with Tudor-arched head. The central house (nos. 16 & 17) had a gabled porch with the upper storeys oversailing on a cyma-moulded string. To the left are windows of 3 lights and 2 lights, the latter modern but in keeping. On the 1st floor is one of 3 lights. To the right of the porch is a 5-light ground-floor window and one of 4 lights on the 1st floor. At the far right on both floors is a chamfered fire window with segmental head, the 1st floor one being blocked. The porch has a 2-light 1st floor window. Above it is a blocked oculus with cyma-moulded surround. Below it is a blank rectangular plaque with cyma-moulded surround. Both return walls of the porch have blocked one-light chamfered windows with segmental heads. The outer porch door has a cyma-moulded surround with segmental head and moulded imposts. Set within it is a chamfered stone surround of C19th type. The inner porch door is cyma-moulded with segmental head. No,18, to the right, has a 5-light window on the ground floor and one of 4 lights on the 1st floor. The door, to the left, has a chamfered stone surround of C19th type with Tudor-arched head. The right-hand gable wall has later additions on the ground floor. On the 1st floor is a blocked 2-light mullioned window. Above are 2 blocked attic lights. Interior. The middle house has a massive chamfered axial beam to its right-hand room, with exposed chamfered and stopped common joists. The outline of a wide chamfered stone fireplace can be seen through wallpaper. Above the fireplace is a stone shield carved with a star. The interiors of Nos. 15 and 18 were not accessible at the time of survey.
Listing NGR: SD7857444159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183341
- 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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