Mere Hall
MERE HALL, MEREHALL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388129
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Mere Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MERE HALL, MEREHALL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388129
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Mere Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERE HALL, MEREHALL STREET
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:
- MERE HALL, MEREHALL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71070 10165
Details
BOLTON
SD71SW MEREHALL STREET 797-1/2/154 (North East side) 26/04/74 Mere Hall (Formerly Listed as: MEREHALL STREET Merehall Museum)
II
Mansion, once a museum later nursery school. 1837, built for Benjamin Dobson, an engineer, and converted to museum in 1890. Brick with stone dressings and hipped slate roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Entrance front a 3-window range, with coupled Doric columns to portico porch, and side lights to doorway. 20-pane floor length sash windows each side of doorway, the upper windows blind. Lower wing probably a later addition to the left, with 2 tripartite sash windows to first floor in return, and single 12-pane sash window below. Parallel rear range also a 3-window range, with blind upper windows and sashes below. 2-window range similarly detailed slightly recessed to the right, linked to separate wing to right, which has tripartite sash window on each floor; this wing possibly extended to rear to provide service accommodation, late C19. Garden front a 5-window range with central full-height bow window with floor length sashes. Upper windows blind. Full-height angle pilasters and stone string courses to each principal elevation. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: the house was left to the town of Bolton in 1890 by its then owner, JP Thomasson, and adapted for use as a museum by the town; its present form, including the blocking of the upper windows, is owing to that use. (Bolton and District Civic Trust: Buildings of Bolton: Bolton: 1983-).
Listing NGR: SD7107010165
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476127
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Buildings of Bolton, (1983)
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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