Description

SJ 60NW; 30/428

LITTLE WENLOCK,
CHURCH LANE,
The Old Hall

GV

II

Part of a late C16 stone mansion. The right-hand (south-east) parts were
demolished after a fire and the lower parts of the walls remain in the garden.
Steeply pitched plain tile roofs with gabled ends. Two storeys and attic. Three
bays. Gabled to left with wide canted 2-storey stone bay window with stone mullions
and transoms and leaded panes. To right mullion/transom 2-light window and modern
gabled porch. C18 brick addition at rear with two gables and round-arched stair
window. Two large stacks at west end.
INTERIOR: small rear room has early-C18 fielded panelling, bolection moulded fireplace
surround with cast-iron grate, a round headed cupboard with shell coving, and a
moulded plaster cornice with modillions. The balustrade of staircase renewed but
fielded panel dado remains. First-floor room has fragments of late C16, plaster
friezes with running vine decoration. Also some C17 panelling and moulded plaster
ceilings and heraldic stained glass of 1820.

Listing NGR: SJ6473606828

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26289974

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings