Description

AUSTWICK TOWNHEAD LANE
SD 76 NE
(west side)
8/36
Austwick Hall
20.2.58
- II
House. C17 with C19 alterations. L plan with central staircase to main block.
Slobbered rubble, stone dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, left-hand
bay breaks forward. Central entrance has Tuscan porch, enclosed in late-C19
with rockfaced stone; plank doors, rectangular fanlight. To right are remains
of blocked late C17 entrance with moulded surround. C19 windows have plain sur-
rounds - 2 to ground floor 3 to upper floor, all with sashes with glazing bars
except window over porch which has 6 pane sashes. Two small upper floor casement
windows to right of centre, one with reused C17 chamfered surround. Remains
of several blocked C17 windows in former third storey. Shaped eaves modillions.
Gable end and central ridge stacks. Hipped roof to projecting wing. Reputedly
has origins as probably C16 peel tower. Interior not accessible.

Listing NGR: SD7691168870

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Austwick Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q15978887

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)