Description

SK 17 SE PARISH OF GREAT LONGSTONE MAIN STREET
3/12 (North Side)
29.9.51 The Hall(formerly listed
as Longstone Hall)
II*
GV

Small country house. C17 and 1747. Rubble limestone with gritstone dressings to
earlier part and rubble limestone and brick with gritstone dressings to later part.
Stone slate roof to earlier part, roof hidden behind parapets to later part.
Earlier part has coped gables with moulded kneelers and ball finial. Stone stacks.
Two and three storeys. Angle quoins. South elevation has lower Cl7 wing to left
with a 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion window to the ground floor and to the
first floor a 4-light recessed and chamfered mullion window with a transom and a
major mullion, giving it the impression of being two cross windows. Moulded
dripmould. All much restored in 1929. Three bay brick elevation to right with
quoins, cornice and coped parapet with ball finials. Central doorway with moulded
architrave and rusticated pilasters. C20 half glazed door. Flanked on each side by
glazing bar sashes in stone surrounds with square bead moulding. Three similar
windows above and three similar, but smaller windows above again. East elevation
has a central doorway with stone surround, flanked on each side by glazing bar
sashes. Three glazing bar sashes above, the centre one much larger and with
moulded architrave and keystone. Three smaller glazing bar sashes above again.
Coped parapet. Projecting service wing to north. Restoration in 1929 by Sir Hubert
Worthington.

Listing NGR: SK1985571954

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545635

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey