Shuttleworth Hall
Shuttleworth Hall | |
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Shuttleworth Hall from the front | |
Location | Hapton, Lancashire |
Coordinates | 53°47′10″N 2°19′47″W / 53.7861°N 2.3296°WCoordinates: 53°47′10″N 2°19′47″W / 53.7861°N 2.3296°W |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
Official name: Shuttleworth Hall | |
Designated | 1 April 1953 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name: Arched gateway and garden wall attached to south front of Shuttleworth Hall | |
Designated | 12 February 1985 |
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Shuttleworth Hall is a 17th-century manor house (and later farmhouse) in the civil parish of Hapton in Lancashire, England. It is protected as a Grade I listed building.[1]
History
The oldest part of the house dates from the early–mid 17th century. An inscription over the outer doorway to the porch contains the date 1639.[2] Although historians have supposed that the house was a residence of the Shuttleworth family of Gawthorpe Hall in Padiham, Shuttleworth Hall's connection to that branch of the family is unclear.[3] By 1856, the building was described as a farmhouse, and it now consists of two separate dwellings.[1][3] In April 1953, the house was designated a Grade I listed building. The Grade I listing is for buildings "of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important".[4] The garden wall and arched gateway are also separately designated with a Grade II* listing. [5]
Architecture
The house is constructed of coursed rubble sandstone with roofs of stone slate.[1][2] Its plan is H-shaped and it is built on two stories.[6] Most of the windows have mullions and transoms; the hall windows are not mullioned.[6] A garden to the south (front) of the house is enclosed by a wall with a segmental-arched gateway.[2]
References
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Shuttleworth Hall", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), retrieved 29 April 2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Townships — Hapton" in Farrer & Brownbill (1911), pp. 507–12
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Harland (1856), p. 311
- ↑ Listed Buildings, English Heritage, 2010, retrieved 23 August 2011
- ↑ "Arched gateway and garden wall...", National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), retrieved 13 June 2011
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hartwell & Pevsner (2009), p. 321
Sources
- Farrer, William; Brownbill, J., eds. (1911), A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 6, Constable, OCLC 270761418
- Harland, John (1856). The House and Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall. Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society. OCLC 5113248.
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969]. Lancashire: North. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-12667-0.