Description

SP 79 SW WEST LANGTON ROAD WEST LANGTON ROAD (north side)

2/72 Langton Hall (formerly listed as West Langton 21.7.51 Hall)

GV II

Country house. C1660-9, extensively altered 1800-2, and in early C20. Ironstone and ashlared limestone. Graded slate roofs with stone stacks coped parapets. East front, Gothicised in 1802 has 3 storey, 3 bay central block with embattled parapet moulded plinth and 1st and 2nd floor bands. Central doorway with embattled porch with arched entry, internal stone benches, and wooden screen with 5-panel double doors and overlight. To either side a single, 2-light casement with arched lights in square frames with flush keystones. Above, 3 similar windows. Above again 3 smaller, similar windows. To the right a slender octagonal extruded corner turret with chamfered plinth and bands, and embattled parapet with a weathervane. To right again a 3 storey projecting wing with chamfered plinth interrupted by a 2-light cellar window and cellar doorway with plank door below ground level. Above a large 4-light mullened window with hoodmould. Above again a similar window and above this, a smaller 3 light mullened window. To left, a large 3 storey extruded corner tower with moulded plinth, ashlar bands embattled parapet and quoins. Single 2-light pointed arch window with above a 2-light window similar to that on the central block. above again a pointed arch window and above this a smaller 2-light window. To left again, a 3-storey projecting wing similarly treated, but with 2 large blocke windows, one above another, and above again a single sash. Slouth front ashlared symmetrical, 2½ storeys and basement, 5 bays. Moulded plinth interrupted by 4 basement windows, the outer 2 blocked. Central flight of steps leading to part glazed door with glazing bar overlight with hoodmould above. To either side a pair of glazing bar shases with stone apron cills and flush keystones. Above 5 similar sashes above again, 5 smaller similar sashes. All with flush keystones. West front has plain C17 parapet. Across the front a single storey addition with large bay windows and symmetrically placed doors all of 1902. Above 3, 2-light windows with C17 surrounds, the central one with a stone lintel. Above again 3, 2-light casements with C17 surrounds. To left a C19 projecting bay with single sash window. To left again a blocked C17, 2-light mullioned window. To right the return wall of the south front with embattled parapet and moulded plinth with blocked basement window. Above, a large blocked window. Above again, a glazing bar sash and above again, a small sash, all with flush keystones. North front: 3 storeys, 3 bays with large brick stack. A single storey early C20 kitchen block obscures the ground storey windows but visible above are 2, 3-light casements with stone surrounds, that to right with a hoodmould. Above a single 4-light window with to left a blocked 3-light window, and to right another 3-light window all with stone mullions and hoodmoulds. South-east angle of this wing has a datestone, 1660. Interior: entrance hall has a C19 Tudor revival ceiling and a late C17 dog-leg staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters pulvinated string and panelled dado. Drawing-room in south range has Neo-classical fireplace. Library has C19 french Rococo fireplace. Running west from the house, a c.21m long, c.3m high wall of ironstone rubble with moulded ashlar coping, and a pointed arch doorway with plank door at its east end. Running east from the house, a similar wall screens, the area in front of the house from the stable courtyard. This wall runs for c.20m and has alternating buttresses and blank round-headed windows terminating in a square embattled tower with chamfered plinth and arrowslit window. Here the wall returns and is interrupted by the stable yard gateway, before continuing for a c.12m to terminate in the east wall of the C19 stable block. On the south and west sides of the house there are terraces with low ashlared retaining walls and steps with square piers topped with stone balls. the gardens were listed Grade II in the Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.

Listing NGR: SP7157593043

External Links

• Wikidata Q26484770

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