Description

CARLTON CARLTON LANE
SE 24 SW
LS 19 (east side)
East Carlton
5/117 Carlton Hall
22.11.1966
- II

Lesser gentry hall-house. Probably early C17 or earlier, restored and
altered internally c.1900. Large coursed blocks of squared sandstone, stone
slate roof. Hall-and-crosswings plan within a rectangle. Now all 2 storeys
but formerly open single-storey hall with storeyed wings; chamfered plinth;
continuous dripmould carried round the whole and stepped over very large
transomed hall window of 4 + 4 lights with a king mullion, and over a doorway
into the left wing, which has a moulded Tudor-arched surround (lintel
restored), heavily-studded door, and unusual overlight of 3 square lights;
otherwise, the gable of this wing has a restored 4-light window, the gable
of the right wing has a King-mullioned window of 3 + 3 lights, and at
1st floor each wing has a transomed window of 3 + 3 lights with a king
mullion; and there is an inserted 2-light window at 1st floor of the hall.
Gable copings with kneelers and finials. Two ridge chimneys. Left return
wall of left wing has inserted door and window. Right return wall of right
wing has an external chimney stack (cut down to eaves level), a 2-light
window at ground floor to left of this, and another at 1st floor to right.
Rear: vertical joints at upper level indicating that rear wall of hall has
been raised to 2 storeys; two 2-light windows at ground floor, with dripmould
over them, inserted window above; rear gables of wings have 5-light windows
at ground floor, transomed 4-light windows above.

fInterior: almost entirely remodelled, c.1900. but floor inserted in hall at
that time recently removed; in the wing, a Tudor-arched stone fireplace in
parlour at ground floor, another in chamber above; stone flagged floors.

Listing NGR: SE2218143264

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545146

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Recommended Books

• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)