Description

SD 57 NE
1/201

WHITTINGTON
Whittington Hall

4-10-1967

GV
II*
Country house, 1831-36 by George Webster, on site of earlier house.
Sandstone rubble with slate roof. South facade is a symmetrical
composition in a Jacobethan style 2 storeys with attics. Windows
mullioned and transomed. On each side of the central porch is a 6-light
ground-floor window with a cross window above. To each side 2 bays project
forwards. The inner ones have 2-storey canted bay windows with embattled
parapets. Above them, under a gable, is a stepped mullioned window. The
outer bays are set back slightly and have cross windows on the ground and
first floors and 2-light mullioned attic windows beneath smaller gables.
The porch has octagonal corner turrets, a 6-light first floor window
projecting as an oriel, and a stepped mullioned attic window under a
gable. The door has a moulded Tudor-arched surround with a plaque over
carved with a shield of arms. Above each storey there is a string course.
The gables have copings with ball finials. To the left of the porch a
tower is visible towards the rear of the building, of 3 storeys with an
embattled parapet and an octagonal corner turret. The east facade has a
single-storey porch with Tudor-arched doorway between the gable of the
front range and a second gabled projection. Set back to the right are 3
bays which are said to incorporate masonry from an earlier house. On the
east and south sides there is a raised terrace, with 2 pairs of gatepiers
and steps on the east side. On the south side the retaining wall contains
the carriage entrance to the house, at cellar level, which has a splayed
Tudor-arched surround. Inside, this doorway opens into a panelled lower
hallway which has twin curved flights of stairs leading to the upper hall.
The latter room has a fireplace said to be c.1500. The drawing room and
dining room were remodelled in a Georgian style in the 1930s.
One of the better houses in the Jacobethan style by Webster, who was a
pioneer in its use. Copeland, B.M., Whittinqton, the Story of a Country
Estate, Maney & Son, 1981.

Listing NGR: SD5962976250

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Whittington Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7996905

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)