ROWLEY HALL AT SD 862330

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362071
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1953
List Entry Name:: ROWLEY HALL AT SD 862330
Statutory Address:: ROWLEY HALL AT SD 862330

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1362071
Date first listed:: 01-Apr-1953
List Entry Name:: ROWLEY HALL AT SD 862330
Statutory Address 1:: ROWLEY HALL AT SD 862330

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROWLEY HALL AT SD 862330

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Burnley (District Authority)
Parish:: Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood
National Grid Reference:: SD 86228 33030

Details

SD 83 SE WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD 3/37 Rowley Hall at SD 862 330 1.4.1953 - II

House. Dated 1593 on restored lintel, enlarged and altered in late C18 or early C19. Sandstone, part in roughly squared blocks with quoins, but mostly watershot coursed with dressed quoins; stone slate roof. Formerly probably L-shaped, but additions to left end and rear now make an irregular plan, the main range on east-west axis now double-depth, with a wing at the left (east) end. Two storeys; hall range has C19 rebuilt 2-storey gabled porch at its left end, coupled with a gabled addition in the re-entrant angle with the wing to the left; hall range has three 3-light recessed windows with cavetto mullions and linked hoodmoulds at ground floor, 3 similar windows above, porch has moulded doorway with C19 4-centre-arched head, shields in the spandrels lettered I M and 1593, a recessed 2-light H Sep, 27 mullioned window above with hoodmould, gable coping with kneelers and ball finials; addition to left has a 2-light window on each floor; re-entrant wall of wing has a similar 2-light window, breaking the remains of an earlier window on each floor, and its gable end has an inserted door, a C19 mullioned window of 3 lights at ground floor and 2 lights above. Right-hand (west) gable end of hall range (coupled with gable end of rear addition) has at ground floor a transomed 10-light window (C17, lengthened downwards in C19) and a 4-light window above, both with hoodmoulds, and stone coping with ball finials on apex and front kneelers; rear gable, has similar windows in matching style, and there is a 2-light window below the valley of the gables. Rear has similar C17-style windows, those at ground floor with transoms. Various ridge chimneys. Interior: not inspected, but hall part believed to contain large moulded arched stone fireplace. History: belonged to Halstead family in C16 and C17. See VCH Lancs VI p.476.

Listing NGR: SD8622833030

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 184043
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 476
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911)

Legal

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