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NZ 24 NW
1/50

WITTON GILBERT
CHURCH LANE (west side)
Witton Hall and wall attached.

(Formerly listed as Hospital (remains) at Witton Hall Farm)

28/2/52

GV
II*
Probably grange of late C12 leprosy hospital, built by Gilbert de la Ley; rebuilt 1399-1400. Now house. C18 and later additions. Wall attached to front. Render with painted plinth and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. Wall rubble, with some large stones, and quoins; coping obscured by vegetation at time of survey.

House L-plan. Main range facing south: two storeys, three bays; central door with three-over-three panels under four-pane overlight; three-light flanking windows have late C20 glazing under segmental heads. Three first floor sashes with glazing bars. Roof, hipped at right, has left end rendered chimney, and right chimney set slightly back from eaves of rear wing. Right return to street three storeys, three bays. First bay blank except for blocked high C14 window, with ball-flower ornament to hollow surround of two-centred-arched plate-tracery head, and fleur-de-lys ornament to quatrefoil between similarly-shaped heads of two lights; lower parts of window rendered over except for moulded surround. Two-light stone-mullioned window on top floor of second bay; third bay has paired sashes with glazing bars on ground and first floors, and C20 window with glazing bars on second floor, two storey, two bay extension to wing has similar windows, and pent one-storey, one-bay extension. Chimney on rear gable. Rear elevation shows two-bay outshut under catslide roof filling space between wing and main range.

High wall extends c.2 metres from right of house, containing boarded door, and returns, ramped down, along right side of garden for c.10 metres, ending in single quoin. Rubble extension not of interest.

Interior shows round-headed dripmould to ground floor at rear of third bay of main range, within rear wing; this opening blocked and plastered; other face, within main range, has bulge suggesting dividing mullion in opening. Rear first floor passage in main range has opening in wall to roof space. Roof shows massive kerbed principals, and arched tie-beams with shallow graduated slots, possibly decorative. Roof only partly inspected, and remainder of building interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: NZ2350145385

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535948

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