Description

WHATCROFT C.P. WHATCROFT LANE
SJ 66NE
4/30
10 March 1953 Whatcroft Hall
II*

Mansion, late C18, but with slightly earlier Garden Front. Red brick,
in Flemish Bond, with slate hipped roof. 2 storeys, 6 bays with 5-bay
Garden Front. The Entrance Front has full height projecting corner
pilasters with stone ogee finials at roof level. Pair of 3-panel doors
in pilastered doorcase with festoon and foliage frieze arid dentil
pediment. Recessed sashes with glazing bars, stone sills and flat,
slightly cambered, arches. Moulded eaves gutter. The Garden Front
(south-west) has a brick first floor band, four French Windows and
sashes with exposed weight boxes. At the rear (south-east) there is a
fully glazed door in pilastered and pedimented doorcase, also sash
windows. In the north-east elevation there is a six-panel door, with
radial bar fanlight, also sashes with exposed weight boxes and flat
arches. At roof level there is a copper-covered ogee Cupola, with
weather vane, mounted on a high standing drum which contains four 2-
light Gothick windows. Lead hips and plain stack at external walls.
Interior: A stone spiral staircase, with curtail step, high quality
metal trellis balustrade and hardwood wreathed handrail occupies a
cylindrical-well below the cupola. The cupola drum has a Vitruvian
scroll band, at its base, and an openwork roll cornice and cove at the
base of the cupola. There are fan-like spandrels, also radiating ribs
to a central, foliage motif ceiling rose which supports a brass
chandelier. The Entrance Hall has a ceiling divided into large and
small intersecting squares and an ornate fireplace with carved archi-
traves, floral frieze and egg and dart cornice. The north-west room
has panelled linings to the sashes, a fireplace with festoon and urn
features, and a built-up plaster cornice. The north-east room has a
fireplace with garlands, console blocks and a dentil cornice. There is
a plaster ceiling cornice based on egg and darts with fruits in the
ceiling section. There are a number of six-panel doors throughout the
building.

Listing NGR: SJ6799269856

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Whatcroft Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7991692

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)