POOLEY HALL, ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL AND POOLEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1365179
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1951
List Entry Name:: POOLEY HALL, ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL AND POOLEY HALL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: POOLEY HALL, ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL AND POOLEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1365179
Date first listed:: 23-Nov-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-May-1988
List Entry Name:: POOLEY HALL, ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL AND POOLEY HALL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: POOLEY HALL, ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL AND POOLEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: POOLEY HALL, ATTACHED FORMER CHAPEL AND POOLEY HALL FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: North Warwickshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Polesworth
National Grid Reference:: SK 25885 02817

Details

POLESWORTH SK2OSESE 5/78 Pooley Hall, attached former 23/11/51 chapel and Pooley Hall Farmhouse (Formerly listed as Pooley Hall)

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Country house, now 2 houses, and attached former chapel. Said to have been built in 1509 by Sir Thomas Cokayne. Altered 1692 and C18 some C19/C20 and C20 alterations. English bond brick with sandstone dressings. Old plain-tile roofs; brick ridge, external and lateral stacks, Complex plan of 3 separate ranges linked by curtain walls. Domestic Tudor style. Principal fronts are towards the canal, Pooley Hall to left is 2 storeys; 4-window range, On the left is a 2-sore 6-light embattled bay, largely of stone; 3-light return sides and end lights to first floor are blocked, Wide external stack has upper parts rebuilt; 2-light wood mullioned window in base. Irregular fenestration, mostly of 3-light windows. Stone mullioned windows of [-centred arched lights throughout. Left return side has 4-light and 2-light attic windows, and external stack. To rear is a twin-gabled 2-bay front rebuilt in 1692. Blacked door to left. Late C20 half-glazed door and porch. Leaded wood casements with top lights, of 4 lights to ground floor and 3 lights above, with segmental arches, Lower lean-to addition across left return side. Right return side has stone buttress and blocked 3-light muilioned window to first floors Leaded 3-light C18 windows, Interior is said to have beamed ceilings and C16 and C17 panelling. Former chapel is linked by a curtain wall with a lead-latticed glazed corridor with central Cl9 ribbed door or; its west side. Chapel is Perpendicular style. bays. East window of 3 stepped lancets with 4-centred hood mould. Shallow-pitched roof has embattled gable parapets. South side has one-, 2- and 3-light straight-headed windows. West front has chamfered 4-centred doorway with moulded spandrels, hood mould and panelled stops, and ancient panelled door with applied ribs. Straight-headed 3-light window above. Small 2-storey turret to left has single light. Upper part is octagonal, with small opening to alternate sides, North side has doorway. Pooley Hall Farmhouse to north has a 3-storey embattled tower, with splay courses between storeys. Blocked straight-headed 4-centred doorway on right; altered and blocked openings above, Chamfered stone mullioned windows, of 2 lights to ground floor and 3 lights above. Stair turret on left has canted top corner. Irregular one-storey C20 range on right. To rear is a 2-storey 2-window range with stone-coped gable parapet and kneelers. Rebuilt west wall has 3- and 4-light stone mullioned windows with cornices. Left return side has chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with hood mould, probably C20, and panelled door, C21' four-light mullioned window to left. Small C16 brick mullioned 3-light window above, Lateral stack on right has shaft with pilaster strips and string course. Right return side has brick diapering. 2-storey porch has blocked 4-centred doorway and single light above, Similar blocked doorways to left and right. 2- and 3-light brick chamfered mullioned windows. Interior not inspected, (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p374; VCH: Warwickshire: Vol IV, pp187-188)

Listing NGR: SK2588502817

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Legacy System number:: 309314
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1947), 187-88
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 374

Legal

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