Description

SJ 45 SE EDGE HALL LANE

1/17 Edge Hall
22.1O.52
II*

House, front largely 1721 with core c16OO, and added to at rear and
sides c179O and onwards. On moated side. Brick with stone plinths
and dressings. Slate roof. 2 storeys in 6 bays with 2 gables to the
left, and 3 to the right of entrance section. 2 windows below each
gable, 3 to central section. The 1O recessed sashes below the gables
have decorative glazing, one pane inscribed BD 1768, stone cills,
fluted surrounds and dropped keystones bearing the family crest.
Recessed entrance section has brick parapet with stone balusters,
stone quoins and band. Above is an octagonal open cupola with
hemispherical roof and ball finial. 3 recessed sashes with glazing
bars in raised moulded cases have plain keystones, some have cambered
brick heads. Stone doorcase with Corinthian pilasters supports open
segmental pediment. 6 panel door. Stone gable coping and finials in
form of crest, which is also on lead downspouts.
Rear. C17, 2½ storey bays have 1st and 2nd floor dentillated bands.
Near flush sashes with glazing bars have stone cills and heads. Circa
179O, 2 storey bowed bay has flat recessed sashes, some with glazing
bars. Other wings have near flush sashes with glazing bars, some
blank. Stone coping and ball finials.
Interior: C17 onwards. Hall has stone Ionic screen, panelling with
Ionic pilasters, C19 Ionic antae. Bolection moulded doorcases.
Dining room has panelling and plasterwork, with strapwork on ceiling,
and elaborate chimneypiece. Doors of 2, 6, 8 panels. Oak open string
stair has moulded rail and twisted balusters, c17OO but much restored.
1st floor has small area of exposed close studding with rail bearing
inscription HD 13O4. C17 and C18 panelling. Ormerod, Pevsner and
Hubbard.

Listing NGR: SJ4808850308

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Edge Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5337657

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)