Description

SD 73 NW LITTLE MITTON

SD 716 385

10/90 Mitton Hall (formerly listed as Little 29-12-1952 Mitton Hall)

- II*

House, now used as restaurant, c.1844 (VCH), with timber-framed hall of c.1500. Sandstone rubble, partly pebbledashed, with slate roof. 2 storeys with attic. Comprises a central hall, now with external walls of stone, and 2 cross-wings. The left-hand (south) cross-wing has a 10-light mullioned and transomed window on each floor, and a 3-light mullioned attic window. The right-hand cross-wing has a 2-storey mullioned and transomed bay window added in 1874 (VCH). The hall has 2 2-storey gabled projections. The left-hand one has a window on each floor lighting the hall. The right-hand one is a porch which has a doorway of C17th type, with cyma-moulded semicircular arch and moulded imposts. On the lst floor of the hall are 3 mullioned windows of C17th type. Chimneys on outer walls of cross-wings and at rear of hall.

Interior. The hall was restored in 1874. The spere truss has large moulded timber posts with carved braces to a cambered tie. Between tie and principals are thin straight intersecting braces. The central truss has a moulded cambered tie beam with carved braces and moulded principal posts, the rear one terminating over a lateral fireplace. At the high end is an aisled truss with moulded half columns. The 2 intermediate trusses have arch braces. At the low end are 4 moulded timber doorways with Tudor-arched heads, the 2 left-hand ones now blocked by a stair to the later gallery. At gallery level the low end wall has square panels with moulded studs and rails and decorative corner braces. The gallery runs around 3 sides of the hall and has a timber balustrade, partly C17th. The hall fireplace has a Tudor-arched head, and casement moulding.

Listing NGR: SD7168638516

External Links

• Wikidata Q17532620

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version