Description

SJ 77 NW TABLEY SUPERIOR C.P. (Off) OLD HALL LANE

6/76 Over Tabley Hall

5,3.59

- II

House. C.1760 possibly adapting an earlier building. Red English garden wall bond brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys with 3 storey tower. Gothick. Entrance front: 9 bays symmetrical. Central slightly projecting tower of 3 storeys. Pilasters to either side extending to full height of tower with sunken central panels containing evenly spaced round stone flower decorations. Entablature above it is with zig-zag pattern of stretchers to architrave. Sunken panel with similar flower decorations to frieze and stone cornice above. Gable above this with stone crocketed pinacles to apex and at sides above pilasters. Central pointed-arched ground floor doorway with brick voussoirs and similar sunken panel with flower decorations as on pilasters and frieze. Glazed door. Large pointed first floor sash window of 5 x 5 panes with interlacing sash bars to top. Exposed sash box decorated with wooden flower decorations (a smaller version of the stone ones in the pilasters and frieze). Similar window to second floor of 3x 3 panes. To either side of the central tower are 2 bays of Gothick fenestration with sash windows of 3 x 3 panes with similar interlacing sash bars to tops and exposed sash boxes with flower ornaments. Doorway imposed on first right-hand bay. Similar entablature as at top of tower with similar crocketed pinnacles. To extreme right and left of front are lean-tos of the same build as the rest. Gothick fenestration and sash windows of 3 x 4 lights to the right hand ground floor and a flat-linteled 3 x 4 pane sash window to first floor. The left hand lean-to has'all flat-linteled windows of varying sizes.

Listing NGR: SJ7193679935

External Links

• Over Tabley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7113427

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