Description

SJ 77 NW TABLEY SUPERIOR C.P. (Off) OLD HALL LANE

6/76 Over Tabley Hall

5,3.59

- II

House. C.1760 possibly adapting an earlier building. Red English
garden wall bond brick with stone dressings and slate roof. 2 storeys
with 3 storey tower. Gothick. Entrance front: 9 bays symmetrical.
Central slightly projecting tower of 3 storeys. Pilasters to either
side extending to full height of tower with sunken central panels
containing evenly spaced round stone flower decorations. Entablature
above it is with zig-zag pattern of stretchers to architrave. Sunken
panel with similar flower decorations to frieze and stone cornice
above. Gable above this with stone crocketed pinacles to apex and at
sides above pilasters. Central pointed-arched ground floor doorway
with brick voussoirs and similar sunken panel with flower decorations
as on pilasters and frieze. Glazed door. Large pointed first floor
sash window of 5 x 5 panes with interlacing sash bars to top. Exposed
sash box decorated with wooden flower decorations (a smaller version
of the stone ones in the pilasters and frieze). Similar window to
second floor of 3x 3 panes. To either side of the central tower are
2 bays of Gothick fenestration with sash windows of 3 x 3 panes with
similar interlacing sash bars to tops and exposed sash boxes with
flower ornaments. Doorway imposed on first right-hand bay. Similar
entablature as at top of tower with similar crocketed pinnacles. To
extreme right and left of front are lean-tos of the same build as the
rest. Gothick fenestration and sash windows of 3 x 4 lights to the
right hand ground floor and a flat-linteled 3 x 4 pane sash window to
first floor. The left hand lean-to has'all flat-linteled windows of
varying sizes.

Listing NGR: SJ7193679935

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Over Tabley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7113427

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Recommended Books

• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]