Holdgate Hall
HOLDGATE HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383406
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Holdgate Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HOLDGATE HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383406
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Holdgate Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLDGATE 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:
- HOLDGATE HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abdon and Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56214 89680
Details
TUGFORD
SO58NE HOLDGATE
1312-1/12/212 Holdgate Hall
12/11/54
GV II
Farmhouse incorporating remains of castle. C16 with medieval
vestiges (late C13 or early C14), C19 alterations and C20
restoration. Sandstone ashlar rear, coursed rubble front with
ashlar dressings, and stone rubble. Plain-tile roof with
conical roof-end over tower wing. 2 integral stone ridge
stacks and brick stack all with brick shafts, integral brick
gable-end stack to north-east, projecting brick stack to
gable-end to south-west.
PLAN: rectangular plan with rear wing consisting of the lower
2 storeys of a semicircular castle tower, and end extension
wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar. South-east front is a
2-storey, 6-window range of C20 Tudor-style twin-mullion
windows over twin-mullion and transom windows. 3 restored
2-light gabled dormers. Entrance door to centre right with
top-light, C20 boarded door to left in segmental-arched
opening. Single-storey extension wing to left with three
3-centred arches of differing widths and with C20 infilling.
Right return gable: ashlar wall with 3-light attic casement to
left. Left return gable: stone rubble wall with C20 attic
casement, otherwise covered by single-storey extension wing.
Rear: to centre right is projecting wing of former castle
tower. Curved ashlar blocks on battered plinth with 3 thin
arrow-slits at lower floor and 3 chamfered glazed slits above.
Casement at each storey to right side of wing. To right is a
stone rubble wall with 3-light casement at upper floor over 2
single-light casements. To left is a mostly ashlar 4-window
range: 2 casements to left; 2 wood mullion and transom windows
to right, one with leaded lights; 2 C20 2-light ground-floor
windows, that to left with transom; C20 casement in cellar.
INTERIOR: square-framed internal partitions, large open
fireplace in hall. Chamfered bridging beams: those in hall
with faceted stops, the kitchen has concave stops, the parlour
has ogee stops. Fine roof timbers. Arched tower doorway.
Tower reputedly attributed to Bishop Robert Burnell,
Chancellor of England, who bought the castle in 1284, probably
as a replacement for the old castle to the south-west. The
castle was fortified in the civil war and besieged and heavily
damaged by the Royalists in 1644.
Listing NGR: SO5621789681
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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