Description

SO 39 SW LYDHAM C.P. OWL'S LANE (north side)

2/170 Roveries Hall (formerly
listed as The Roveries)
1/12/51
GV II

Shown on O.S. map as Roveries.
House. 1810, by John Hiram Haycock for John Oakeley as an enlargement of an
earlier house. Stuccoed limestone rubble with hipped slate roofs. Regency
villa style. 2 storeys. Plinth, deep eaves and 7 brick ridge stacks.
South-west front: 4 bays; glazing bar sashes, tripartite with recessed
segmental heads in outer bays on ground floor, and central 2-bay 2-storey
bow. South-east front: 3 bays, ground floor to left blank; central pair of
half-glazed doors, ashlar porch with unfluted Greek Doric columns and pilasters,
and full entablature with lead top. Projecting lower hipped-roofed circa C18
wing to right. Interior: entrance hall with semi-circular end walls and panelled
plaster ceiling; double height top-lit staircase hall and dog-leg staircase
with stick balusters; fireplace in The Drawing Room with reeded architraves,
and doors with reeded architraves. The Panelled Room, ground floor to right
at rear: a post-war introduction from a London house. Raised and fielded
panelling with dado and moulded cornice; fireplace with lugged architrave,
central carved shell panel, flanking carved acanthus, egg and dart enriched
cornice; panelled overmantel with eared architrave, shell above and flanking
husk garlands; flanking semi-circular arched buffets; 6-panelled door with
architrave, and doorcase with acanthus frieze and broken triangular pediment.
Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - 1840,
(John Murray), 1978, P.468; Salop Records Office, Specification and estimate,
1079, Box 13.

Listing NGR: SO3235592150

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26306187

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Recommended Books

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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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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover