Lutwyche Hall
LUTWYCHE HALL, RUSHBURY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383378
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lutwyche Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LUTWYCHE HALL, RUSHBURY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383378
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lutwyche Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUTWYCHE HALL, RUSHBURY
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:
- LUTWYCHE HALL, RUSHBURY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 55635 94634
Details
RUSHBURY
SO59SE Lutwyche Hall
1312-1/8/179
12/11/54
GV II
House, then school, now house. Dated 1587. For Judge Edward
Lutwyche. Mid C18 extension. Mid C19 remodelling and
extensions, dated 1859, by S Pountney Smith, restored c1989.
MATERIALS: brick, with ashlar dressings to quoins, moulded
storey bands, mullion and transom windows with moulded
surrounds, moulded cornice, gable copings with ball finials,
balustraded parapets with corner finials; leaded lights
throughout. Plain-tile roofs, hipped to lower wing, with coped
gables. Large lateral integral brick ridge stacks with
connected diagonal spur-moulded shafts with oversailing caps.
Main building
PLAN: E-shaped, but courtyards between arms filled by late C19
brick extensions.
EXTERIOR: main block is 3-storey and side wings 2-storey and
attic. South-east front is a 3-storey, 5-window range. C19
central infilling extension comprising recessed entrance porch
with ornate Jacobean-style 2-storey ashlar door surround
incorporating oriel window and ornate cresting, all set under
shaped gable flanked by advanced pavilions of 3 storeys with
ornate balustrades. Main flanking gables have 2 projecting
wings with 2-storey bay windows with ornate balusters.
Rear: mirrors the south-east front except that the C19
infilling extension projects with a 2-storey hipped wing with
projecting 2-storey bay window on this extension instead of
the main flanking gables. South-west side: 2-storey, 5-window
front with second and fourth bays advanced and rising into
third storey with gables projecting past eaves. Central bay
with projecting single-storey bay window.
North-east side covered by 2-storey extension wing; 7-window
front of projecting single window bay to left, and 2 window
bays to right in the same style as the main block, then a
recessed 4-window link of plain brick segmental arched
casements. The rear of extension wing is an 8-window range of
casements in segmental-arched openings.
INTERIOR: good restored C18 plasterwork in hall and late C16
panelling in dining room. Mid C18 staircase.
Listing NGR: SO5563594634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483796
- 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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