Langar Hall Including East West Range Adjoining And To North East

LANGAR CUM BARNSTONE CHURCH LANE SK73SW (west end) 5/106 12.2.52 Langar Hall including east-west range adjoining and to north-east GV II Large house with attached service range. C18 and early C19 incorporating earlier fabric. The service range c.1828. The house: stuccoed with hipped slate roof and oversailing eaves. Rendered ridge stacks and paired end stacks rising from a small projection to the left elevation. Two storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay facade with slight centre break and corner pilaster strips. Ashlar plinth. Central, round-arched doorway set in deep reveals with alternately blocked rusticated surround. 6-panel part-glazed door with fanlight. To each side is a tall sash window with glazing bars and raised sill. Shorter similar windows to 1st floor. Two-bay right return with similar windows that to ground floor right having been converted to a French window with a small cornice on shaped brackets. Left return has projecting chimney breast (possibly earlier) with 2 small windows at ground-floor level. Altered porch to left. The service range: brick with slate roof, hipped to right and gabled with coping to left. 3 brick stacks. Two storeys. Seven bays in all. The earlier, right part is of 4 symmetrical bays with glazing bar sashes to ground floor and shorter 6-pane sashes to 1st floor, all with shallow segmental head. The left part is of 3 bays with a part blocked elliptical-headed cart entrance, and, to 1st floor, 3 small casement windows. Interior: the house has a stone stair with ornamental cast-iron balustrade. In the rear (south) wall of the service range is a massive ashlar, elliptical-arched recess and a smaller round-arched recess, possibly a fireplace and an oven and probably a survival of an earlier building. N Pevsner. The Buildings of England, 1979.

Listing NGR: SK7209034653