Rake Hall
RAKE HALL, PARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330219
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rake Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RAKE HALL, PARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1330219
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Rake Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAKE HALL, PARK 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:
- RAKE HALL, PARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Stanney
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41072 73823
Details
SJ 47SW LITTLE STANNEY C.P. RAKE LANE (East Side) 4/33 Rake Hall (formerly listed as Rake Hall, remains)
4.6.52 II
Pub and restaurant, formerly house. C17th altered and added to. Pebbledashed brick, slate roofs, rendered plinth, stone dressings. Roadside centre wing of 3 storeys, 2 windows, steely pitched roof. Windows are timber casements. 1 dormer. 1st and 2nd floor bands are rendered, that at 2nd floor is moulded. Stacks are at gables. At right is lower 2 storey 4 window wing, Casements, added and altered door, stone gable parapet and kneelers. Original stack at gable, added stack on ridge. Modern one storey extension in front. At left 2 storey, 1 window wing, with hipped roof, has canted bay and casements. Entrance through added porch at side. Garden front is in 2 wings, probably early and mid Cl9th of similar rendering. Both have hipped slate roofs. 2 storeys, 3 bays. At right under one roof, has stone canted bay and oriel. Central bay has altered openings. Left bay has canted bay. Stacks are at ends of left and central bay and on centre ridge of right bay. Interior, much altered but part of c17th close string stair, with turned balusters, moulded rail. Rough hewn beams in hall supported by (Jacobean) screen of 2 columns. Upper floor rooms in C19th wings have 6-panelled doors and simple panelled ceilings and moulded cornices. Formerly seat of Bunbury family. Ormerod, G, History of the County Palatine and City of Chester 2nd Edition. London (l882).
Listing NGR: SJ4107273823
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55416
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ormerod, G, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Volume 1, (1882)
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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