Mitton Hall
MITTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362324
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mitton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MITTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362324
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Mitton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MITTON HALL
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:
- MITTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Ribble Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Mitton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71686 38516
Details
SD 73 NW LITTLE MITTON
SD 716 385
10/90 Mitton Hall (formerly listed as Little 29-12-1952 Mitton Hall)
- II*
House, now used as restaurant, c.1844 (VCH), with timber-framed hall of c.1500. Sandstone rubble, partly pebbledashed, with slate roof. 2 storeys with attic. Comprises a central hall, now with external walls of stone, and 2 cross-wings. The left-hand (south) cross-wing has a 10-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, and a 3-light mullioned attic window. The right-hand cross-wing has a 2-storey mullioned and transomed bay window added in 1874 (VCH). The hall has 2 2-storey gabled projections. The left-hand one has a window on each floor lighting the hall. The right-hand one is a porch which has a doorway of C17th type, with cyma-moulded semicircular arch and moulded imposts. On the lst floor of the hall are 3 mullioned windows of C17th type. Chimneys on outer walls of cross-wings and at rear of hall.
Interior. The hall was restored in 1874. The spere truss has large moulded timber posts with carved braces to a cambered tie. Between tie and principals are thin straight intersecting braces. The central truss has a moulded cambered tie beam with carved braces and moulded principal posts, the rear one terminating over a lateral fireplace. At the high end is an aisled truss with moulded half columns. The 2 intermediate trusses have arch braces. At the low end are 4 moulded timber doorways with Tudor-arched heads, the 2 left-hand ones now blocked by a stair to the later gallery. At gallery level the low end wall has square panels with moulded studs and rails and decorative corner braces. The gallery runs around 3 sides of the hall and has a timber balustrade, partly C17th. The hall fireplace has a Tudor-arched head, and casement moulding.
Listing NGR: SD7168638516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 183409
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1907)
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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