Bank Hall
BANK HALL, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362113
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BANK HALL, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362113
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK HALL, LIVERPOOL ROAD
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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:
- BANK HALL, LIVERPOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bretherton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 46256 20215
Details
BRETHERTON LIVERPOOL ROAD SD 42 SE 3/18 Bank Hall 22.10.52 GV II*
Mansion house, part said to be dated 1608, but mostly 1832-3 when it was altered, restored and enlarged; now (1985) derelict. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roofs. Long range on east-west axis, irregular in plan, with C19 additions on the north side and at both ends of the C17 house, the original plan of which is thereby obscured except for a projecting tower on the south side. Mostly 2½ storeys, the extensive C19 service wing to the east lower than the main ranges: The most prominent feature is the tower, square in plan and partly embraced by what was probably the C17 hall range, which contains the remains of the original staircase but is carried up to a great height above roof level; this has stone quoins, 4 original stone cross-windows with recessed ovolo-and-fillet mullions and transoms, and hoodmoulds, irregularly arranged on different levels, a C19 clockface above, and a parapet with angle and intermediate ornament in C17 style; but the rear (north) side recently collapsed. To the left the hall range has 2 unequal C19 bays, and 2 Dutch gables to the attic (and 3 similar gables on the north side, the C19 front). The west crosswing, the north wing, and the service end, are in matching C17 style and have similar gables and the roof is ornamented with several very tall slim chimney stacks with clustered diagonal flues. Apart from those in the tower, all openings appear to be C19, but some parts are obscured by the ivy growth of a long period of dereliction. Interior inspection not attempted, but remains of moulded plaster ceiling in C17 style (part exposing 1/4-round mounded beams) visible in hall range. Reference VCH Lancs VI pp.106-7.
Listing NGR: SD4625620215
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 184269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1911), 106-107
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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