Tarvin Hall
TARVIN HALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330303
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tarvin Hall
- Statutory Address:
- TARVIN HALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1330303
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tarvin Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- TARVIN HALL, HIGH STREET
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:
- TARVIN HALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarvin
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 48952 66951
Details
SJ 46 NE TARVIN C.P. HIGH STREET (South Side)
2/61 Tarvin Hall
1/3/1967
GV II*
Formerly manor house, later school, now house: mid-late C18 (graffito date 1776 found during roof repairs) late C19 extension to rear. Flemish bond orange brick with painted stone dressings. Hipped Welsh slate roof of 2 parallel ranges. Brick chimneys. Double-pile plan. 3-storey symmetrical 3-bay east front. Moulded stone plinth, band at 1st floor and modillion cornice. End bays have Venetian windows on lower 2 floors with fine gauged and rubbed brick heads, semi-circular headed sashes above (all have lost glazing bars) central bay projects forward slightly under a low pediment. Ground storey stuccoed with Tuscan doorcase. 4-panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight and scrolled glazing bars that breaks the pediment. 1st floor window has a partial balustrade below an eared architrave with semi-circular head and a raised key block to plain sash. 4-pane sash above. Small 1-storey portion to the right carries a similar balustrade and contains a 12-pane sash. To left side are 2 added canted bays and extension to rear in Ruabon brick. Interior: Hall has panelled dado and simple wooden doorcases. Broad elliptical arch with panelled soffits on fluted pilasters leads to stairwell. Oak well staircase with curving mahogany handrail and fluted square balusters. Pierced and fluted brackets on open string, painted panelled dado with fluted pilasters on closed string. 6-panelled door flanked by quarter columns to rock cut cellar. Downstairs later basalt and marble fireplaces. Shouldered architraves to doors upstairs. Main room has Neo-Classical detailing. Doorcases have frieze of husks, broken pediments with central urn. Panelled dado carries fluted Corinthian pilasters. Ceiling frieze of husks and an ovolo and modillion cornice. Blocked fireplace with shouldered architrave.
The house formerly extended to left via a 1 storey portion to a large end pavilion with a lantern. The same decorative details were carried through.
Listing NGR: SJ4895266951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55765
- 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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