Ambrose Hall
AMBROSE HALL, PLUMPTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361687
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrose Hall
- Statutory Address:
- AMBROSE HALL, PLUMPTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361687
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ambrose Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- AMBROSE HALL, PLUMPTON LANE
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:
- AMBROSE HALL, PLUMPTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Preston (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodplumpton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 50003 35207
Details
SD 43 NE WOODPLUMPTON PLUMPTON LANE (off)
3/131 Ambrose Hall
II
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Dated 1697 internally, but probably earlier; altered 1871. Stuccoed brick painted white, slate roof. Three-bay baffle-entry plan. Two storeys; 1st floor band; doorway (in line with large ridge chimney stack) at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, protected by single-storey gabled porch with arched opening; three C19 windows on each floor, all with wooden mullions and transoms, and hoodmoulds. Left gable has single-storey lean-to porch, 2 small attic windows, gable chimney; rear has short outshut to 1st bay, porch to 3rd bay (like that at front), some sashed windows. Interior: housepart in 2nd bay and kitchen in 3rd bay have back-to-back inglenook fireplaces, the former with tongue-stopped 1/4-round moulded bressummer and a recessed panel above lettered in relief "W.S 1697" (= William Shaw); housepart has beam also with tongue-stopped 1/4-round moulding, and 2 doorways to 1st bay (now other dwelling); 1st floor has numerous chamfered beams with cyma stops, and some original timber-framed partitions; in roof space a large brick smoke hood, one collar truss with curved principals. History: Ambrose family associated with Woodplumpton in C16 and C17, William Ambrose given as "of Ambrose Hall" in 1629. Reference: George Jackson Woodplumpton its History in Religion, Houses and Families (1971), pp.86-7.
Listing NGR: SD5000335207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jackson, G, Woodplumpton its History in Religion Houses and Families, (1971), 86-7
Jackson, G, Woodplumpton its History in Religion Houses and Families, (1971)
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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