Delves Hall
DELVES HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1330165
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Delves Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DELVES HALL
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1330165
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Delves Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DELVES HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- DELVES HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Doddington and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 70873 47025
Details
DODDINGTON C.P. DODDINGTON PARK SJ 74 NW 5/20 Delves Hall 12.1.67
GV I
Tower house. Late C14 with later alterations and restorations. Built for John Delves or Sir John Delves. Red sandstone ashlar with a slate roof. Three storeys with corner turrets. Square plan. Entrance front: Ashlar Jacobean Imperial Staircase to lower body salvaged from earlier house when the new house of 1777-90 was built and re-applied here. This staircase has central lower flight with balustrades of pierced ashlar strapwork in the form of enriched quatrefoils. To the half landing is a crude Ionic column supporting a naked female figure and the undercroft to the lateral flights of stairs has rusticated pilasters to either side of central large statues representing the Black Prince, Audley and his four squires, all dressed in armour, and standing on semi-circular plinths decorated with strapwork. The first floor has a pointed doorway at right with an ogee hoodmould with figurehead label stops. String course between ground and first floors. Battlemented parapet above with battlemented corner turrets. The right hand side has a shallow pointed archway to the ground floor originally joining the house to a later extension. This now has a recessed 2-light Cl9 window to its centre. The first floor has three lancet windows and one 2-light window to the second floor with cusped lights and a lancet at right of it. The left hand side has a C19 2-light first floor window with Y-tracery and a transom. To the second floor is a 2-light window with cusped lights. The rear has a 2-light first floor window with Y-tracery with transom and a 2-light window to the second floor with cusped lights. Interior: tunnel-vaulted ground-floor room with a staircase (now blocked) to the right of the southern window embrasure. The first floor has a similar arrangement of window and stairway. There is a cast iron stove with a hob grate of late C18 or early C19 date to the northern wall and a fireback dated 1663/TP. The second floor has been taken out. In the early/mid C17 the house was extended so that the tower formed the south-easternmost feature of a Jacobean house. This house was demolished after the new hall was completed and the Imperial staircase which had been a centrepiece was re-applied to the tower which was retained.
Listing NGR: SJ7087347025
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57098
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 6 Cheshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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