Shaw Hill

SD 52 SE WHITTLE-LE-WOODS PRESTON ROAD

3/169 Shaw Hill 17.4.1967 (Formerly listed as Shaw Hill Golf - II Club)

Country mansion, early 1840s, by Charles Reed for Liverpool family T. Bright Crosse, incorporating as west'front an earlier and smaller house now golf club'. Ashlar with hipped slate roofs concealed by parapet; various chimneys. Square 5-bay plan with attached service wings on the east side. Three storeys. Bands on 2 levels, prominent moulded cornice, plain parapet. Symmetrical; entrance in north side under a porch which forms a slightly projecting centre to a Roman Doric colonnade of full width with antae at the corners (modern glazed inner porch replaces original door). All windows sashed with glazing bars; those at ground floor have architraves and aprons, those at 1st floor have similar architraves and cornices except the centre which has a segmental pediment on scrolled brackets; till 2nd floor windows are small and square. Principal feature of west front is a large semi-circular bay to full height in the centre (porch of original house) which has 3 windows on each floor; here all ground floor windows rise from ground level, those of the bay with architraves and cornices, those flanking. it being Wyatt windows blind at the sides which have segmental architraves with scrolled keystones; at flat floor the windows of the bay have eared architraves, those flanking it have architraves with cornices. On south side the 4 ground floor windows (which lack glazing bars) and the centre door have architraves with cornices, windows at flat floor have eared architraves. Stepping out at the east end of both north and south walls are attached 2-storey service wings of matching materials but simpler style, enclosing a courtyard; an entrance passage to this from the east side has an ashlar arch with keystone dated 1846. Interior: in the centre an imposing open- well staircase with slim iron balusters and on every 2nd step a slim scrolled panel ofwrought iron with a stork (arms of Crosse Family), the landing surrounded by round-headed arcades of pilastered piers with surrounds and soffits of moulded plaster; some moulded plaster friezes and cornices in ground floor rooms.

Listing NGR: SD5769120885