Heversham Hall

SD 48 SE HEVERSHAM Heversham

2/18 Heversham Hall 21-11-52 II*

House, probably C14 with C16 and later alterations, later additions to East and West. Stone rubble walls with roughly cut quoins and sandstone dressings; graduated greenslate roof with stone ridge and 2 end chimneys. 2 storeys plus attics lit from gable. 4 windows, irregular: ground floor cross windows with trefoil heads to lights, right hand window blocked; upper floor 2-light windows with square heads, all with chamfered mullions and surrounds, leaded glazing and small iron opening panes. Off-centre doorway with chamfered surround and pointed-arched head, later 8-panelled door inserted behind arch. Rear: similar mullioned windows and one C19 mullioned window to upper floor; extension with plinth to south gable and massive chimney with round stack; ruined wall of Pele tower. Interior has flagged floors, chamfered oak beams, fireolace with segmental arched head with later fireplace inserted within it, oak doors, fragments of C17 panelling to ground and upper floors; late C17 or early C18 staircase with closed string, square newels and moulded balusters; 4-bay roof with principals pegged at apex, ridge piece, collars and 3 levels of trenched purlins with deep chamfers.

Listing NGR: SD4938283241