Description

KINGSLEY C.P. CREWOOD HALL LANE SJ 57 NE (off West Side) 3/125 Crewood Hall 14/12/1978 GV II* Hall farmhouse. Late C16 and early C17 with probably earlier internal features, altered and extended late Cl9. Stone-dressed brown brick; some oak framing; tiled roofs. 2 storeys; cross-wing at each end; 2-storey porch, with sandstone lower storey and oak-framed upper storey with chevron and hollow-diamond braces, at junction with left cross-wing. Cl9 3-light wood-mullioned casements, 2 to each storey between porch and right cross-wing and 1 per storey in each cross-wing. Chimney behind main ridge just left of porch; left and right lateral chimneys. Short wing beyond right cross-gable. C19 extension at rear. Arris to porch has ovolo: fillet: cyma moulding. Inscribed lintel has badly weathered inscription (1623 and coat of arms). Replaced boarded door. Right end gable has stone ovolo-moulded 5-light mullioned and transomed window to each storey, Elizabethan or Jacobean. Interior. Great sandstone open fireplace in room right of porch, probably formerly the great hall; massive oak posts in left corner of chimney breast and outside back right corner of room; 2 broad chamfered oak beams; stair replaced; front bedrooms have large-framed partition walls and oak beams. Roof structure now ceiled, has cambered beams to trusses over hall and simple trusses over right cross-wing; the far right wing's roof appears to be a later addition to the cross-wing. A Waterworth Crewood Hall; Webb's Itinerary of Cheshire, 1623, in King's Vale Royal.

Listing NGR: SJ5662976154

External Links

• Crewood Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5184852

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)