Whittingham Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1979. Manor house. 5 related planning applications.
Whittingham Hall
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-hearth-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1979
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whittingham Hall is a manor house that later became a farmhouse and is now a residential property. It likely dates from the early 17th century and has undergone significant alterations. The building features roughcast handmade brick on a stone plinth and has a slate roof. It consists of three bays, with a central projecting porch that also serves as a stair turret, and two small turrets at the rear. There have been various additions to the left end and rear of the structure.
The house is two storeys high, with a wide gabled porch that has a modern glazed and panelled door offset to the right. Inside the porch, there is a wide Tudor-arched inner doorway made of oak, with an apex nick on the lintel that continues as an incised cross. The door is studded and features ornamental strap hinges. The stairlight windows are on two levels, with one window offset to the left and another above the door, both of which are sashed. The remaining windows are 12-pane sashes: there are two on each floor to the left, one at ground floor and two above to the right, and one on each floor in the right gable. The left gable has an extruded chimney stack, and extending to the left is a large single-storey extension.
At the rear, the middle bay is flanked by narrow full-height gabled turrets, which may have once served as garderobes. The third bay has a rear-wall chimney, and much of the rear is covered by a large two-storey lean-to. Inside, the first bay features a very large beam at the end wall, resembling a hearth bressummer, and a timber-framed partition wall with exposed wattle. The ground floor room in the third bay is said to have a honeycomb-pattern coffered ceiling made of carved beams, although this is now concealed. There is a dog-legged staircase with a closed string, fielded panel newels, a moulded handrail, and a panelled dado, but it lacks balusters. The roof consists of five kingpost trusses with curved struts, and the eastern part appears to be double-tiered, with a ceiling above the lower tie beams, which are chamfered.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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