Entrance Steps To Mawdesley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Chorley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1952. Stairs.

Entrance Steps To Mawdesley Hall

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Chorley
Country
England
Date first listed
22 October 1952
Type
Stairs
Source
Historic England listing

Description

MAWDESLEY NEW STREET SD 41 NE 8/164 Entrance steps to Mawdesley Hall 22.10.52 GV II

Entrance steps with integral viewing platform on open-topped turret. Dated 1653 (see below). Sited on steep bank which separates garden above from road below, the steps rising from the east parallel to the retaining wall of the garden and landing at the open side of an enclosed platform on top of a short turret projecting from the bank. Sandstone. Flight of 8 steps protected on the outer side by a sloped parapet with roll-moulded coping, which carries round the viewing platform and has looplights in the sides. Said to incorporate a stone bearing the initials of Robert Mawdesley and date 1653 (VCH Lancs VIp.98, with illustration), but now (1985) heavily overgrown.

Listing NGR: SD4977015078

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