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© Mr Jack Whittaker
IoE Number:
414847
Location:
GAWTHORPE HALL AND GREAT BARN,
IGHTENHILL, BURNLEY, LANCASHIRE
Photographer:
Mr Jack Whittaker
Date Photographed:
06 June 2004
Date listed:
01 April 1953
Date of last amendment:
12 February 1985
Grade
I
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SD 83 SW IGHTENHILL GAWTHORPE
4/15 Gawthorpe Hall and surrounding
balustrade (formally listed
1.4.1953 as Gawthorpe Hall and
GV Great Barn)
- I
Country house, 1600-1605, for Rev. Lawrence Shuttleworth, possibly to plans
influenced by Robert Smythson; altered c.1850-60 by Sir Charles Barry; now
museum. Coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings. This house is the only
example in this county of the late Elizabethan type associated with Smythson
(e.g. Wollaton, Hardwicke, Bolsover, Worksop). Relevant features of the
building are: the compact plan within a rectangle, surrounding a tower (which
is off-centre and possibly of medieval origin); the high 3-storey
elevations over a basement kitchen (basement exposed at rear making 4 storeys)
with the tower rising above; the symmetrical 5-bay facade composed of
full-height porch and flanking semi-octagonal bays; and the internal plan
placing the great hall not in the centre but to one side. Original interior
features of particular interest are the screen and gallery in the hall, the
panelling and plaster work in the dining room (now drawing room), overmantels
in two 1st floor chambers, and the long gallery on the 2nd floor. (For full
information and other references see: VCH Lancs; Country Life 10 May 1913;
Shuttleworth Accounts 4 vols Transactions of the Chetham Society, 1856; Mark
Girouard Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House (2nd edn,1983,
pp.191-2); D.R. Buttress Gawthorpe Hall, National Trust 1979; and Pevsner's
North Lancashire.) Included in the item is the surrounding C19 balustrade c.2
metres from the walls of the house which is of stone in Jacobean style
openwork, with obelisk finials on the pedestals.