Description

SK 17 NW PARISH OF WHESTON 3/42 ?9.9.5i Wheston Hall, gate piers and boundary walls (formerly listed as Wheston Hall)

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Farmhouse, formerly country house. Mid=C18, incorporating C17 fragments and having been totally remodelled in mid-C20. Coursed rubble limestone with gritstone dressings projecting quoins, plain gables, intermediate and gable ridge stacks of stone, and concrete tiles to roof. Two storeys, six bays, with off-centre advanced bay with moulded cornice to parapet. Sash windows without glazing bars, in flush stone surrounds, Advanced bay has semi-circular headed opening with keyblock and radiating glazing bars to head of window frame. Off-centre doorway with moulded architrave and pediment supported by moulded brackets. C20 half glazed door. Low garden wall with saddleback copings incorporating stone gate piers, square on plan, and with a moulded band and projecting moulded caps with cone finials. Monopitch roofed projection at east end, formerly a projecting two bay wing with C17 storeys. History: the house was formerly an eight bay country house of three storeys, with a parapet and full height advanced stair towers to each side of the then central doorway, The two bays at either end projected beyond the staircase bays.

Listing NGR: SK1326076370

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