Cantsfield Hall
CANTSFIELD HALL, A687
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362542
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cantsfield Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CANTSFIELD HALL, A687
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1362542
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cantsfield Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANTSFIELD HALL, A687
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:
- CANTSFIELD HALL, A687
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cantsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62053 72835
Details
CANTSFIELD A687 (off) SD 67 SW
5/68 Cantsfield Hall
GV II
House, 1623, altered. Slobbered rubble with slate roof. Comprises 2 wings abutting at right angles, probably added to an earlier building which has subsequently disappeared. Both wings are of 2 storeys with attic. The original windows had external timber lintels, plain reveals, and ovolo-moulded wooden mullions: a few survive. The east wall of the north block has 2 1st floor windows with timber lintels remaining. At the right on the ground floor is a similar lintel over a blocked opening. Left-hand gable chimney. This south gable wall has traces of blocked doorways on the ground and 1st floors. The left-hand part of the wall is overlapped by the adjoining wing. The right-hand (north) gable has a timber lintel over a ground-floor door and window. On the 1st floor are 2 lintels, the left-hand one over a blocked opening, the right-hand one over a 2-light ovolo-moulded mullioned window. The attic has one window with ovolo-moulded timber surround, and another blocked window. The south wall of the south wing is of 2 bays and has modern windows with plain stone surrounds, except at the left on the ground floor where there is a small high opening with plain reveals. The north wall of this wing has a ground- floor window with timber lintel and ovolo-moulded wooden surround. On the 1st floor is a 3-light window with ovolo-moulded wooden mullions. Interior. North wing has a stone lintel above a modern fireplace, carved with the arms of the Cansfield family and inscr[bed:'ISABEL CANSFIELD ANO DNI 1623. On the 1st floor are timber-framed partitions with depressed ogee doorheads. The roof of the north wing has curved principals. In the north wall is a blocked ovolo-moulded timber cross window.
Listing NGR: SD6201972800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182363
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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