Holmeswood Hall
HOLMESWOOD HALL, THE MARSHES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361826
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Holmeswood Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HOLMESWOOD HALL, THE MARSHES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361826
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Holmeswood Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLMESWOOD HALL, THE MARSHES 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:
- HOLMESWOOD HALL, THE MARSHES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 42233 17450
Details
TARLETON THE MARSHES LANE SD 41 NW Holmeswood 6/63 Holmeswood Hall 11.10.1968 GV II
Hunting or fishing lodge (or part thereof) built by Hesketh family of Rufford, now farmhouse. Dated 1568 at 2nd floor; altered. Brick roughcast and painted white; pitched roof concealed by parapet. Rectangular single-cell 3-storey tower with embattled parapet, large rectangular external chimney stack in left return wall continued above the parapet and finished with battlements disguising flues; in south front one large square window on each of the 1st 2 floors, a 3-light casement at 2nd floor, and between the upper windows a carved stone plaque in ropework surround with a wheatsheaf in the centre flanked by stylised letters T H (= Thomas Hesketh) with date 15 68 in upper corners. Addition to rear. Other features and interior of less interest. History: associated with fishing and hunting on and around former Martin Mere (which was 4 miles long and 2 miles wide before draining); probably built to protect Hesketh's disputed rights here. Reference: VCH Lancs VI pp.116-7; and W.G. Procter "The Manor of Rufford and the Ancient Family of the Heskeths" His. Soc. Lancs and Cheshire, 23, 1907, pp.91-118.
Listing NGR: SD4223317450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357766
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1906), 116-117
Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire in Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. 23, (1907), 91-118
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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