Listed Building: REMAINS OF WANSLEY HALL (4.5.5)

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Grade II
Authority
EH LBS Legacy ID 415164
Date assigned 21 November 1988
Date last amended

Description

Ruined remains of medieval manor house C13, C16, late C17 and early C18, C19. Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone and brick, with remains of internal timber framing. Partial chamfered plinth, ashlar quoins and dressings. Remains of square central stack and side wall stack, brick. 2 storeys, 3 unequal bays. L-plan, former hall on east-west axis, with later projecting wing to south. North front has 2 square openings, that to right blocked. Above, 2, 3 light keeled mullioned windows. East side has remains of projecting gable to right. To left, doorway and small casement. To their right, remains of mullioned casement. To right again, broken opening and early C19 door with flat hood. To right again, a casement on each floor. West side has projecting wing to left, with square opening in plinth. To its right, basement level doorway. Rear wing, to right, has 2 square openings. Above, to left, a window. Interior has transverse close studded wall with sill and span beams. Remains of C16 herring bone brick fireback on south wall. North wall has window opening with timber lintel. Rear wing has C19 ashlar fireplace. In east brick wall the remains of 3 C17 plain stone mullioned windows with drip moulds survive plus an early C18 doorway. Late C18 plank door. West wall has a re-set corbel. This building incorporates the remains of the C13, first floor hall house built for the de Wandeslie family. Owned by the Gratton family from 1320, and by the mid C16 by the Middleton family. Passed by marriage to the Rowitt family in the early C17, and sold by them before 1660. The building was a farmhouse in the C19 and was finally abandoned in 1960. Now a roofless ruin. Consolidated 1987. (NCC/js)

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Grid reference Centred SK 46137 51304 (17m by 20m)
Map sheet SK45SE
District Ashfield
Civil Parish Selston, Ashfield

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Apr 29 2015 11:39AM

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