Description

OAKMERE C.P. CHESTER ROAD SJ 57 SE (North Side) 4/23 Oakmere Hall 6/1/1978 II

Formerly large house, now a hospital: dated 1867 by John Douglas for John Higson, a Liverpool merchant, with later addition. French Baronial style. Long rectangular plan. 2-storey, 9-bay west front. Entrance behind 2-storey porte cochere finished as a gatehouse. Octagonal pilasters end as turrets, broad arched openings on 3 sides and rib vaulting internally. Oriel window at 1st floor. Bays to either side carry balustrade on a corbel table, and have a mixture of 2 and 3-light windows, some divided by colonnettes. 2 tall double lancets light the stairwell. At the right end is a circular projection with a tall conical roof and at the left end an octagonal turret with a tall pyramidal roof. Garden front uses similar motifs but is partly hidden by C20 extensions. It includes a massive 3-storey tower with an embattled parapet and a truncated pyramidal roof with wrought-iron balustrade. The tower, which is dated, is carried higher by an octagonal turret. Interior: entry into a porch with ceiling beams on stone corbels. Hall to the right through a 3-bay, semi-circular arcade, is panelled with bolection moulded fireplace and a fine cast-iron grate. The hall is open to the roof with 1st floor gallery on 4 sides with a balustrade. It is top lit by a large rectangular lantern carried on arch braces. Hall also contains the open well staircase with twisted balusters. The other main rooms on the ground floor have borders to the ceiling and shouldered architraves to the fireplaces. The former billiard room at 1st floor is open to the roof with arch-braced trusses and a chimney breast with carved hunting scenes.

Listing NGR: SJ5905470451

External Links

• Oakmere Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7074176

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)