WALLSWORTH HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340310
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: WALLSWORTH HALL
Statutory Address:: WALLSWORTH HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340310
Date first listed:: 12-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:: WALLSWORTH HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WALLSWORTH HALL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WALLSWORTH HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandhurst
National Grid Reference:: SO 84115 23003

Details

SANDHURST - SO 82 SW 5/119 Wallsworth Hall

GV II*

Country house. Reputedly built 1753, altered and extended c19 and C20. Brick with limestone dressings, slate roof, brick stacks. Rectangular main body with C19 extensions at rear; the whole now forming a u-shaped plan. C20 lean-tos rear right of C18 main body not of special interest. Facade largely as built: 2½ storeys with flat-chamfered quoins, 3:3:3 windowed; 15-pane sashes to ground floor, 12-pane sashes to first floor, all with wide glazing bars and limestone keystones, moulded lugged architraves to windows lighting central section, central first floor window with pulvinated frieze, 3 bullseye windows with moulded surrounds and glazing bars above, central window keyed, stone balustrade with pedestals with ball finials at either end, brick parapet either side with short sections of balustrading, interrupted-by two C19 dormers with 9-pane sashes within moulded architraves splayed at bottom, enriched frieze and triangular pediments with dragon's head crests within pediments. Central fielded 10-panel door within portico with rusticated Roman Doric columns, enriched frieze, triangular pediment above with dripping icicle decoration (unfinished) and flattened dentil decoration. South front: double C19 glazed doors within C18 portico with rusticated square columns, segmental pediment with cartouche, C19 bay window far right, heraldic shield with dragon's head crest and motto /Synar/Duhun/ above. Three-light carved bay left. C19 extension left lit by 6-pane sashes within moulded architraves, splayed out at bottom and keystones. C19 extension at rear lit by C19 segmental-headed casements, some within moulded architraves, some with keystones C19 mansard roof, square tower off-centre right with bullseye windows flanked by pilasters with foliate brackets forming capitals, pointed pyramidal leaded roof with finial. Interior: C18 fireplace in front right-hand room. Very fine C18 mahogany staircase with twisted balusters moulded under treads and shaped dado. Owned by Walter Wilkins (later de Winton) in 1803 (q.v. monument in Sandhurst Church), still owned by the de Winton family in 1879. Subsequently owned by the Dorrington family. Interior not accessible. D. Verey (The Buildings of-England: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1980).

Listing NGR: SO8411523003

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Legacy System number:: 134239
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.