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Quernmore Park

A Grade II* Listed Building in Quernmore, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.0586 / 54°3'30"N

Longitude: -2.7401 / 2°44'24"W

OS Eastings: 351652

OS Northings: 462767

OS Grid: SD516627

Mapcode National: GBR 9P9H.LV

Mapcode Global: WH847.W7CZ

Plus Code: 9C6V3755+CX

Entry Name: Quernmore Park

Listing Date: 4 October 1967

Last Amended: 7 March 1985

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1317735

English Heritage Legacy ID: 182240

ID on this website: 101317735

Location: Lancaster, Lancashire, LA2

County: Lancashire

District: Lancaster

Civil Parish: Quernmore

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Tagged with: English country house

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Description


SD 56 NW QUERNMORE

5/176 Quernmore Park
(Formerly listed as Quernmore
4-10-1967 Park, Hall)

- II*

Country house, 1795-8, probably by Thomas Harrison, remodelled by Alexander
Mills in 1842. Sandstone ashlar with hipped slate roof. A symmetrical
composition with a main block linked to pavilions set back on each side. Main
block of 3 storeys, and 5 bays on north, south and east sides. Windows sashed
with glazing bars and plain ashlar reveals. 1st floor sill band. Cornice
with blocking course. East front has tetrastyle Ionic portico added by Mills.
Links each of one storey and 3 bays, with blank niches over the windows, which
are sashed with glazing bars, except for the middle window of the north link
which is now unglazed. The pavilions are of one bay and 2 storeys each and
have pedimented gables and 1st floor sill bands. Their ground-floor windows
are tripartite with baseless Doric columns as mullions. The southern pavilion
has sashed windows Doric columns as mullions. The southern pavilion has
sashed windows, the 1st floor sill now lowered. The northern pavilion, in a
derelict condition, has sashed windows with glazing bars. Inside, Mills
created a 2-storey central hall with Grecian plasterwork. On the ground floor
are pilasters, above are columns and pilasters, and openings to a landing.
Above is a lantern and coved ceiling. Drawings of proposed alterations by
Mills are in the Lancashire Record Office.


Listing NGR: SD5165262767

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