Witherslack Hall And Attached Outbuilding

WITHERSLACK SD 48 SW 3/44 Witherslack Hall and attached outbuilding

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House, now school. Datestone reads: "18FSA74". For Earl of Derby. Rock-faced limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings, slate roofs. L-plan house with 2 service courts to north. 4-stage tower to angle of north and west wings. String courses, coped parapets and gables; quoins. Angle tower has embattled parapet and north-east square stair turret. West wing of 2 storeys and 7 bays, the end 2 bays breaking forward as 3-storey block with embattled parapet. Double-chamfered-mullioned windows have transoms of 2, 3 and 4 lights; 3rd bay of 1st floor has projecting window continued up as gabled on 2-light dormer window; end 2 bays have 2nd floor windows with round heads. Tower has windows to upper 2 stages with cusped lights and leaded glazing. West wing of 2 storeys with attic and 5 bays. 1st 2 bays project; with gabled dormers to 1st and 2nd bays, with finials; 1st floor has central oriel of 4-lights with 2 transoms and blind traceried frieze over pointed entrance with flanking shafts; similar flanking 3-light windows, decorative leaded glazing. 3rd and 4th bays have hipped dormers. South end of wing of 3 bays, the 1st a 3-storey canted and gabled window, the 3rd bay breaks forward under gable with 2-storey canted bay window; 2nd bay has round-headed entrance with mullioned and transomed overlight. Some leaded glazing. West facade similar. 1st 5 bays lower, with 2 entrances and 2 gables; 6th to 9th bays higher, end bays breaking forward under gables, hipped dormers between; ground floor windows have 2 transoms. Stable has south range projecting eastward from north wing with east and north ranges. South elevation has 2 gabled dormer windows. East elevation has gabled end bays with high ground floor lights between. North elevation has lateral stack. Court has 3 carriage entrances and hipped dormers to north; cross-casements with small panes and central entrance to east and varied altered entrances to south; some remaining loose boxes in east range. Rear of house similar to but plainer than front; window with datestone to return of 3-storey block. Kitchen court, possibly later, has north-east and west ranges; cross- casement windows add raking dormers, no sandstone. Court has verandah to 3 sides, gabled through passage to north; south-east angle has canted weather- boarded projection with louvre. Varied gable-end and cross-axial stacks. Wall extends south from south-east angle of stables and has gable over round-headed gateway.

Listing NGR: SD4362786172