Lunecliffe Hall

LANCASTER

SD45NE STODDAY 1685-1/2/344 Lunecliffe Hall 22/12/53 (Formerly Listed as: STODDAY Lunecliffe)

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Formerly known as: Stodday Lodge. Small country house, now house and office. Late C18 and early C19, with later additions. Sandstone ashlar, with ashlar dressings. Slate roof. PLAN: composite plan formed by rectangular double-depth main block on east-west axis, facing north, with additions to the rear including service wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus cellar and attic, 3 bays. Symmetrical, with plinth, rusticated quoins, 1st-floor sill band, moulded cornice, and low blocking course. The pedimented centre, breaking forwards slightly, has a semicircular porch mounted on 3 steps, with 4 Tuscan columns (2 engaged), plain frieze and mutuled cornice, and a round-headed doorway with curvilinear tracery in the fanlight. The windows are 12-pane sashes with plain reveals. Gable chimneys. The 3-bay left return wall has, inter alia, a doorway towards the rear, a tall round-headed sashed stair window above this, with tracery in the head matching that in the fanlight of the front door, a blind window with painted glazing bars at 1st floor to the right, and a lunette with radiating glazing bars in the gable, which is treated as a pediment. To the rear is the added service wing, 3 storeys to the same height, with sill bands, 12-pane sashes at ground and 1st floors, 3-light casements at 2nd floor. The right-hand return wall has 2 windows on each floor including a very prominent late C19 five-sided bay to the right, and a lunette in the pediment. To the rear the addition includes a late C19 two-storey canted bay window and an early C19 two-and-a-half storey gabled bay which has tripartite windows at ground and 1st floors and a Venetian window which has blind outer lights and intersecting tracery in the centre, and breaks into the pediment of the gable. INTERIOR: entrance hall has Venetian-style panelled and glazed screens to rear and left, with fluted pilasters, moulded architraves with fluted keystones, and 2-light stained glass windows.

Listing NGR: SD4686859021