THROWLEY OLD HALL REMAINS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1374740
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: THROWLEY OLD HALL REMAINS
Statutory Address:: THROWLEY OLD HALL REMAINS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1374740
Date first listed:: 02-May-1953
List Entry Name:: THROWLEY OLD HALL REMAINS
Statutory Address 1:: THROWLEY OLD HALL REMAINS

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Location

Statutory Address:: THROWLEY OLD HALL REMAINS

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

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Waterhouses
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK1106652516

Details

WATERHOUSES C.P. THROWLEY

SK 15 SW 2/189

Throwley Old Hall remains

2/5/53

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II*

Remains of a large house, Early C16 with later alterations and additions. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; ashlar lateral external stack. Rectangular plan house aligned north- east/south-west with roughly square projecting tower attached to the north-east corner, there were formerly further buildings to the north- east and to the north-west. South-east front: main house to left of 2 storeys and gable-lit attic, 3 storey tower to the right, roughly 4 bays altogether. Main house: large full-height breach to the left with the foundations of a square porch in front, probably the principal entrance, central projecting chimney stack, the right hand bay is recessed and has C16 windows, the ground-floor window has 2 ogee arch lights and the first-floor window 3 Tudor arch lights, both have sunken spandrels and deeply chamfered surrounds. Tower: partly obscured by vegetation at time of resurvey (July 1985), remains of a second-floor window with Tudor arch lights and sunken spandrels. Left hand return of tower has a Tudor arch doorway to the left and 3-light windows with Tudor arch lights and sunken spandrels to ground floor right and first and second floor centre; moulded first-floor band and parapet band. An attached wall, recessed to the right has a window of 3 Tudor arch lights and sunken spandrels. North-west front 3 blocked Tudor arch doorways, one to right of centre and 2 to left of centre, immediately to the right of the former and to the left of the latter are traces of the bonding of former projecting walls with horizontal line above suggesting a former wing covered by a lean-to roof. South-west gable: Jambs of central ground-floor and first-floor windows survive on each side of a full height breach. North-east gable: main house to right, tower to left. House: central ground floor doorway with square head and chamfered surround, C17 3-light mullioned window to ground floor right with rebated and double ogee-moulded surround and mullions, central C16 windows of 4 lights to first floor with Tudor arch lights, sunken spandrels and deeply chamfered surround, central single-light attic window; 3 bands above eaves level with rows of square holes over each. Tower: linked to main house by a narrow recess containing a ground floor Tudor arch loop; square buttress to right hand corner surmounted by an octagonal turret with moulded parapet band and small loop to the right complete with rebated surround and returned hood mould; 2-storey breach to left of buttress, second-storey window above with 2 Tudor arch lights and sunken spandrels. Set back to the left of the tower is the inside face of the wall containing a 3-light window already mentioned under the south-east front. On the left hand return of the buttress at first floor level is a Tudor arch door. Interior: main house: south-east wall has a roughly central C16 ground-floor fireplace remodelled and reduced in size in the C17, the original fireplace had a chamfered surround and panelled spandrels, in the C17, ogee-moulded jambs were inserted, the moulding continued around the now fragmentary lintel; massive first floor fireplace above with Tudor arch head, panelled spandrels and double ogee-moulded surround; C17 first-floor doorway to the left with ovolo-moulded surround, formerly leading to the first floor of the south-east tower, blocked ground-floor doorway to the left leading from the south-east tower; inserted chimney stack in south-east corner with 2 C17 fireplaces, the ground-floor fire- place has a shouldered lintel and a hollow chamfered surround, the first-floor fireplace has a very shallow Tudor arch. South-east Tower: incorporates a square garderobe turret which was entered from the ground floor and first floor of the main house by doors which were blocked by the insertion of the south-east corner chimney stack, the south-west wall of the tower is built against the blocked doorway already mentioned which led into the main house. The north-west corner of the tower has a C17 second floor fireplace with 3-centred head and panelled spandrels, to the right of it is a doorway which leads into the octagonal turret. The site is littered with fragments of moulded stonework. Throwley Old Hall was the home of the Meverell family, it is scheduled as an A.M. B.O.E. p. 281.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/01/2016.

Listing NGR: SK1106652516

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Legacy System number:: 275187
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 281

Legal

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