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Simonstone Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Simonstone, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.8044 / 53°48'15"N

Longitude: -2.3406 / 2°20'26"W

OS Eastings: 377665

OS Northings: 434285

OS Grid: SD776342

Mapcode National: GBR DS3F.2Z

Mapcode Global: WH96R.0MQV

Plus Code: 9C5VRM35+QQ

Entry Name: Simonstone Hall

Listing Date: 1 April 1953

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1239023

English Heritage Legacy ID: 414919

ID on this website: 101239023

Location: Simonstone, Ribble Valley, Lancashire, BB12

County: Lancashire

District: Ribble Valley

Civil Parish: Simonstone

Built-Up Area: Read

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: St John's, Read and St Peter's, Simonstone

Church of England Diocese: Blackburn

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Description


SD 73 SE SIMONSTONE WALLEY ROAD

3/70 Simonstone Hall
1.4.1953
GV II


Large house, substantially early C19 enlargement and remodelling of C17
building with some C20 alterations. Sandstone blocks with dressed quoins,
3-span stone slate roof with gable coping and kneelers bearing spike finials,
various chimney stacks. Rectangular plan on north-south axis, 3 large bays
long and 2 wide, 2 1/2 storeys, now roofed with ridges at right angles to the
main axis, forming 3 gables to the east and west fronts. In Jacobean style,
having tall multiple-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. West front has
moulded doorway to 3rd bay with carved coat of arms on the lintel, windows of
5 lights on each side, 4, 2 and 4 lights above, a 2-light attic window ;
set-back 1st bay has a 2-storey canted bay window (probably C20). Right
return wall has similar bay window at ground floor, 2 mullioned windows
above; east (garden) front has doorway in line with that at the front, windows
of 8 lights each side, 7, 2 and 7 lights above, stepped triple-light attic
windows, and smaller north bay has one mullioned window at ground and 1st
floors. Interior: C17 3-bay house appears to have been in the eastern side,
where the dining room in the 2nd bay has 3 boxed beams, and the drawing room
in the 3rd bay has 2 large beams with deeply undercut carved vines in the
soffits (said to be by Italian craftsmen working at Gawthorpe in C17, but
appears to be C19). History: home of Whittaker family in C17.


Listing NGR: SD7768934314

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