Description

SD 83 SE WORSTHORNE WITH HURSTWOOD 3/37 Rowley Hall at SD 862 330 1.4.1953 - II

House. Dated 1593 on restored lintel, enlarged and altered in late C18 or early C19. Sandstone, part in roughly squared blocks with quoins, but mostly watershot coursed with dressed quoins; stone slate roof. Formerly probably L-shaped, but additions to left end and rear now make an irregular plan, the main range on east-west axis now double-depth, with a wing at the left (east) end. Two storeys; hall range has C19 rebuilt 2-storey gabled porch at its left end, coupled with a gabled addition in the re-entrant angle with the wing to the left; hall range has three 3-light recessed windows with cavetto mullions and linked hoodmoulds at ground floor, 3 similar windows above, porch has moulded doorway with C19 4-centre-arched head, shields in the spandrels lettered I M and 1593, a recessed 2-light H Sep, 27 mullioned window above with hoodmould, gable coping with kneelers and ball finials; addition to left has a 2-light window on each floor; re-entrant wall of wing has a similar 2-light window, breaking the remains of an earlier window on each floor, and its gable end has an inserted door, a C19 mullioned window of 3 lights at ground floor and 2 lights above. Right-hand (west) gable end of hall range (coupled with gable end of rear addition) has at ground floor a transomed 10-light window (C17, lengthened downwards in C19) and a 4-light window above, both with hoodmoulds, and stone coping with ball finials on apex and front kneelers; rear gable, has similar windows in matching style, and there is a 2-light window below the valley of the gables. Rear has similar C17-style windows, those at ground floor with transoms. Various ridge chimneys. Interior: not inspected, but hall part believed to contain large moulded arched stone fireplace. History: belonged to Halstead family in C16 and C17. See VCH Lancs VI p.476.

Listing NGR: SD8622833030

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