Description

WIVERTON HALL BINGHAM ROAD SK73NW (east side, off) 2/154 Wiverton Hall including service 12.2.52 range to rear left GV II* Small country house. Late C15 gatehouse, converted 1814 in Tudor Revival Style. Rendered brick C19 work, ashlar gatehouse. Hipped roof behind a deep castellated parapet. Tall ridge stacks. Two storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay facade the corners and centre bay marked by octagonal buttresses which rise as tall octagonal turrets with broad castellated tops. Central rib-vaulted porte-cochere, again with corner buttresses and turrets. Above is a gothic arched window with glazing bars. To the left and right, two tall 3-light mullioned windows with square heads and hood moulds and gothic-arched lights. Shorter, similar windows to 1st floor. To the left is a single storey addition with a single 3-light window as before. Right return of 1 bay with a 3-light ground floor window as before, and a further polygonal bay set back with a 2-light gothic window to each floor. A similar polygonal bay to left return with tall stair window. To the rear, the former gatehouse is of stone with 3 round, angle-turrets (to each end and between the 2 bays). The centre turret contains the main, arched entrance with moulded surround. The left bay has a wide arched entrance, now part-blocked, with a moulded surround. Above is a 4- light deeply recessed and roll-moulded mullioned window. The right bay has single lights at ground and intermediate levels and at the upper level a 2-light mullioned window in line with, and similar to, that of the left bay. Two cross-loops to the centre turret. Castelled parapet. The service range is to the rear left and is L-shaped and of stuccoed brickwork with a slate roof. Approx. 3 bays long, with mainly tripartite casements. Interior: octagonal entrance hall with ribbed ceiling on triple colonnettes. 6-panel doors with moulded architraves. In the centre of the building is an open-well Regency staircase with traceried iron balustrade, wooden handrail, ramped at the top and rolled at the bottom, and stone treads with shaped soffits. The former carriageway of the gatehouse, now a room, has a groin vaulted ceiling and a Regency fireplace. N Pevsner. The Buildings of England, 1979.

Listing NGR: SK7133536343

External Links

• Wiverton Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q8028682

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets