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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26532045

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)