Whirley Hall
WHIRLEY HALL, WHIRLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329627
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Whirley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WHIRLEY HALL, WHIRLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1329627
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Whirley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHIRLEY HALL, WHIRLEY LANE
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:
- WHIRLEY HALL, WHIRLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Alderley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 87630 74608
Details
SJ 87 SE OVER ALDERLEY C.P. WIIIRLIIY LANE (North Side)
8/176 Whirley Hall
GV II*
Hall: c.1670 with C20 alterations and additions. Flemish bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings. Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 2 brick chimneys. 3+-storey symmetrical 5-bay front (2:1:2). Brick bands at 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors. Lower 2-storeys have C20 wooden, mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars under flat wedged brick"heads. 3rd storey has 2-light casements. Above each pair of end bays is a stone-coped, shaped, gabled dormer, with an obelisk finial, containing an elliptical light in a rectangular stone surround. Central bay has a glazed door under a flat, gauged and rubbed brick head. Similar head to mullioned and transomed window above and 3rd storey has a circular light in a square stone surround. End gables are stone-coped on stone kneelers 1-storey, 2-bay C20 extensions to left and right in keeping. Interior: Original ground plan but only chamfered ceiling beams and a good oak dogleg staircase with turned, slightly bulbous, balusters, heavy handrail and square newels with some reeding. This house was an addition to a timber-framed hall, now demolished. A stone with "1599" was found during renovation but the existing features point (with the exception of the gables) to a late C17 date.
Listing NGR: SJ8763074608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58342
- 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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