List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: Downton Hall and attached balustrade
List Entry Number: 1269833
Location
Downton Hall and attached balustrade
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Shropshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Stanton Lacy
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 12-Nov-1954
Date of most recent amendment: 21-Jun-1996
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 460376
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
SO57NW
1943-1/9/88
STANTON LACY
Downton Hall and attached balustrade
(Formerly Listed as Downton Hall)
12/11/54
GV
II*
House. Mid C18 with early C19 alterations. Brick with ashlar detailing; Welsh slate roofs; various C19 composite stacks with blue brick decoration. E-shaped on plan, with addition to right.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; twelve-window range: late C19 1/1 sashes under gauged brick flat arches with ashlar keyblocks; 3/3 sashes to second floor. Parapet with balustrade incorporating Latin motto. Five C19 fixed windows with upper sashes to ground floor; storey band. Advanced wings with late C19 6/6 sashes to ground and first floors; 3/3 sashes to second floor; shouldered moulded architraves and sills with corbels; returned storey band and parapet.
Wing to right: two 6/6 sashes to ground and first floors; storey band; three 3/3 sashes to second floor. Parapet with ball finials. Left returned side: central late C19 1/1 sash in shouldered moulded architrave with corbelled sill, over C19 part-glazed double doors and plain overlight under enriched tympanum and moulded stone open pediment hood on attached columns, flanked by narrow 2/2 sashes in shouldered architraves; two advanced canted bays, each with three tiers of late C19 1/1 sashes in shouldered moulded architraves, and, to ground floor centre, under pads and moulded flat hoods; continuous storey band; returned parapet.
Rear: central margin-glazed double doors and overlight in moulded architrave, flanked by coved alcoves and late C19 1/1 sashes, under portico with two Doric columns and pilasters; late C19 1/1 sash over. Flanking advanced bays with 6/6 and 6/9 sash to left, and 1/1 sashes to right; bellcote; service wing to left returned side; C18 and C19 lead rainwater goods throughout.
Interior: includes two rooms with very fine plasterwork and fireplaces, in one case the walls are decorated with rococo swags, trophies and roundels with relief portrait medallions which frame pictures. There is a circular entrance hall with Ionic columns and marble fireplaces, a library with fitted bookcases, and original staircases.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached balustrade links wings and flanks steps to former central entrance.
Listing NGR: SO5280779274
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National Grid Reference: SO 52807 79274
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