NHER 67892 (Building record) - Service courtyard to north-west of Old Hall

Service courtyard to north-west of Old Hall (NHER 3979).
Previously recorded under NHER 3979.

May 1975 and September 1979. Field Observation.
Old Hall visited by E. Rose (NAU).
...Behind, good red brick 18th-/19th-century barns.
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU). Information from record card (S1).
P. Watkins (HES), 14 January 2024.

September 1982. Field Observation.
Third visit to Old Hall by E. Rose (NAU).
...[A previously reported] detached kitchen...is in an 18th-century red brick outbuilding to west. It has oven, copper, channel across brick floor and larder or dairy - these fittings seem 19th century; it may have been for farm use...
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 10 September 1982.

March 1985. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Service courtyard, comprising stables, former detached kitchen and boundary wall. 18th and 19th century. Red brick; hipped slate and pantiled roofs to stables, red pantiled roof to kitchen.
Stable block and coach house on north side with hipped slate roof. Two pairs of double door openings set centrally. Secondary door and window openings with semi-circular heads. Tripartite casements with glazing bars. One blind opening at south west corner. Brick dentil eaves. Central clock cupola with ogee lead-covered dome on turned balusters.
Stables to south with steep hipped roof of black glazed pantiles. Alternating door and window openings with semi-circular heads; tripartite casements with glazing bars. Brick dentil eaves.
Former kitchen with gabled pantiled roof. Ground floor sash with glazing bars in south gable. Chimney stack east of ridge line. Interior contains large oven, fireplace and copper intact. Drainage channel across floor.
Buildings linked by red brick boundary wall with half-round coping.
Included for group value."
Information from (S5).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S5) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 14 January 2024.