West Handley Hall
WEST HANDLEY HALL, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335127
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- West Handley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WEST HANDLEY HALL, MAIN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-10-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/05214/13
- Rights:
- © David E Whiteley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1335127
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- West Handley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST HANDLEY HALL, MAIN ROAD
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:
- WEST HANDLEY HALL, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Unstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 39836 77536
Details
PARISH OF UNSTONE MAIN ROAD SK 37 NE 6/185 West Handley Hall 31.1.67 II* House. Early C17, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Coursed squared coal measures sandstone, with ashlar dressings, quoins, moulded shell kneelers, coped gables, ashlar gable stacks and a stone slated roof. T-plan house, with rear stair tower. North elevation. Two storey, with attics, two bays, and single bay single storey additions to ends. Doorway to main range at east end, with massive surround and lintel. To the west, a 4-light recessed chamfer mullioned window with cast iron diamond lattice lights, all beneath a continuous hoodmould, formerly returned around south-west corner, as with the two 2-light windows above. Extension to west with C20 leaded casement and plain plank door beneath a plain lintel. Stair tower with single and 2-light C17 windows to half landings, with plain dripmoulds above. Interior. Massive grand hearth to hall with elaborately moulded jambs and massive lintel, quite out of scale with the house. Newel stair with C17 splat baluster staircase, now painted.
Listing NGR: SK3983677536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79668
- 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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