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© Mr Geoffrey R Hood LRPS, CPAGB
IoE Number:
273904
Location:
LOXLEY HALL,
UTTOXETER RURAL, EAST STAFFORDSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Geoffrey R Hood LRPS, CPAGB
Date Photographed:
18 May 2004
Date listed:
10 January 1953
Date of last amendment:
10 January 1953
Grade
II*
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SK 03 SE UTTOXETER RURAL C.P. LOXLEY PARK
6/196
10/1/53 Loxley Hall
GV II*
Country house, now school. Early C19 remodelling of an earlier
house. Ashlar, and plaster lined as ashlar; hipped slate roofs;
ashlar ridge stacks. 3 storeys, reduced proportions to second
floor, moulded eaves cornice and low parapet; 3:5:3 bays, slightly
recessed centre flanked by wings, glazing bar sashes, sill band
to first-floor windows, outer ground-floor windows are set within
round-headed recesses, inner ground-floor windows have moulded archi-
traves and cornice hoods, central first-floor window has moulded
architrave and bracketed pediment; central 6-panelled, 2-leaf door
with 2 blind panels over, moulded architrave and bracketed hood, 3-
bay Tuscan portico prostyle. Set-back 2-storey, single-bay link
to left in front of 3-storey, 3-bay service wing and attached to
single-storey, 6-bay flat-roofed extension. East front: 3 storeys
with moulded eaves cornice and low-parapet; 3:5:3 bays, central recessed
block flanked by 2 wings, glazing bar sashes, sill band to first floor
windows; central 6-panelled, 2-leaf door with overlight containing
radiating glazing bars, moulded architrave and reeded brackets to cornice
hood, C20 door to left hand bar of central block. Interior: Early C18
open-well staircase with barley sugar twist balusters, scrolled and
foliated brackets, ramped and wreathed hand rail. Hall: Jacobean wall
panelling and frieze with armorial bearings dated 1607; lower end of room
has a balustraded gallery carried on Ionic columns, upper end has a
Jacobean fireplace surround incorporating Corinthian columns on pedestals,
decorated with strapwork and the coat of arms of James I; decorative
plaster ceiling and frieze. Master Bedroom: Divided by fluted columns
of square Section carrying a 3-centred arch with keystone, and egg and
dart moulding; Greek key frieze at mid-wall height. Formerly the home
of the Kynnersley family.