Listed Building: HOOLE HALL (1229523)

SJ 46 NW HOOLE VILLAGE C.P. HOOLE ROAD (South Side) 5/13 Hoole Hall 29/3/1982 GV II Large house: c.1760 for Rev.John Baldwin with extension and some alterations for the Hamilton family. Flemish bond plum brick with stone dressings, Welsh slate roof, hipped around a well. 7 ridge chimneys. Square in plan with added servants wing. 2-storey, symmetrical, 5-bay west front. Stone plinth, rusticated quoins, band at 1st floor, moulded cornice and blocking course. Central 3 bays on a rusticated plinth are under a triangular pediment, containing an heraldic cartouche. Sashes without glazing bars in stone architraves, and a central projecting Tuscan porch carrying a balustrade and containing a 6-panelled door with a triangular pediment. Similar windows in other bays. Canted 2-storey bay window on south front, and two 2-storey segmental bays with plain columns on the north front. Interior: not inspected but recent photographs show good plasterwork in the well over oak staircase, consisting of a modillion cornice over a semi-circular arcade with panelled coving above with scrolled fronds in the field. Further cornice above. Some other rooms retain simple Georgian decoration, and one with Romanesque detailing. Listing NGR: SJ4303668040