Longworth Hall
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Longworth Hall
Image: © Philip Halling Taken: 18 Apr 2017
Longworth Hall was built for James Walwyn (1744-1800), replacing an earlier house. The house was completed in 1788 to a design by Anthony Keck. The building is now a hotel. The house is Grade II listed. Historic England description LUGWARDINE CP - SO 53 NE 5/91 Longworth Hall II Country house, now hotel. c1788 by Anthony Keck, altered mid-C19, C20 alterations. Brick with hipped slate roof. Two rooms deep facing south with additions to east and west, central entrance and axial stacks. Three storeys to central section flanked by monumental two-storey bows, parapet and two string courses; 1:6:1 bays, single vertical glazing bar sash windows, central projecting porch with semi-circular head to doorway flanked by similar semi-circular-headed lights, inner semi-circular-headed doorway with decorated fanlight and half-glazed door. Interior altered but retains some stuccoed ceiling decoration. Source:https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1099874
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Image Location
Latitude
52.053508
Longitude
-2.637548