Kersal Cell
KERSAL CELL, 20, 22 AND 24, WHITEWATER DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386144
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Kersal Cell
- Statutory Address:
- KERSAL CELL, 20, 22 AND 24, WHITEWATER DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1386144
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Kersal Cell
- Statutory Address 1:
- KERSAL CELL, 20, 22 AND 24, WHITEWATER DRIVE
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:
- KERSAL CELL, 20, 22 AND 24, WHITEWATER DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80958 01536
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/06/2012
SD80SW
949-1/2/69
31/01/52
SALFORD
WHITEWATER DRIVE
(West side)
Kersal Cell, Nos. 20, 22 and 24
(Formerly listed as Kersal Cell, Littleton Road)
GV
II*
Manor house, later restaurant. C16 with later
additions. Timber-framed with plaster infill on a sandstone
base. Welsh slate roof with axial and end wall stacks.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, hall range with cross-wings. Originally a
4-bay cruck-framed building, the cross-wings added later.
Framed in square panels, with coving below eaves, and braced
king-post roof construction to gabled wings. Recent
restorations have replaced window ranges in the S elevation,
which has a continuous band of fenestration to the ground
floor, and a long narrow window to first floor, all with
timber mullions. Doorway inserted to left of right-hand gable,
which has renewed 5-light mullioned window to right, and
canted oriel window above. Full-height canted bay window in
left-hand gable. The N elevation is of painted brick with
Gothic style windows in stuccoed square hoodmoulds. Exposed
cruck trusses built into end walls with part of a restored
plaster frieze with bold decoration to the left comprising a
bordered panel with vine leaves, fleur-de-lys and escutcheon
with initials E B and date 1697. To the right are 3 moulded
devices with large unicorn supporters. C17 staircase with
intertwined twisted balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the house stands on the site of Lenton
Priory, a C12 Cluniac house. It was the home of John Byrom,
shorthand writer, and author of 'Christians Awake'.
Listing NGR: SD8095801536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471568
- 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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