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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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