Halecroft
HALECROFT, 253, HALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356501
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Halecroft
- Statutory Address:
- HALECROFT, 253, HALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1356501
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Halecroft
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALECROFT, 253, HALE 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:
- HALECROFT, 253, HALE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Trafford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ7871786355
Details
SJ 78 NE HALE HALE ROAD
(north-east
7/131 No. 253
13.10.75 (Halecroft)
- II*
House now offices. 1890 on rainwater head. Edgar Wood.
Brick, ashlar dressings, render, tile hanging and red clay tile
roof. Large 2-storey detached house with attics, a single-
storey wing to the rear and a single-storey C20 extension to
left. 5 bays with stone plinth, quoins and dressings to
doors windows and buttresses. Diagonally set corner bay
window to bay 1 with mullion and transom window to ground
floor, enriched first floor band, mullion windows to first
floor, coped gablet and ball finial. Bay 2 has similar
windows and a large gable with carved barge boards. Tudor-
arch doorway to bay 3 with enriched cartouche above. Bays 3
and 4 have a considerable timber mullion and transom window
at first floor with leaded lights as well as a carved
bressumer, pargetted gable with floral motifs, carved
bargeboards and elaborate weather-vane. Single-storey bay
window to bay 5 with mullions and transom, rounded corners
and a 5-light timber mullioned window above with advanced
half hipped dormer and elaborate finial. Steep roof with
crested ridge and vents. Right elevation has projecting
chimney stack, 5 light mullion and transom window and a
first floor bow window. The left has another pargetted
gable. Fine Jacobean-style staircase as well as oak
panelling to boardroom which has a carved stone chimney
piece within an inglenook. Generally a well preserved
interior which includes plaster ceilings and friezes, doors
and ironwork, linen fold panelling and good stained glass
(some with pre-Raphaelite figures). An excellent example of
Wood's earlier work largely expressing the ideals of the Arts
and Crafts Movement and the vernacular revival.
Listing NGR: SJ7871786355
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 212891
- 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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