Description

SJ 98 NE MARPLE CHURCH ROAD
Mellor

7/75 Mellor Hall and
Mellor Hall
Farmhouse
(formerly listed
20.12.67 as Mellor Hall)

G.V. II*

House and adjoining smithy which is now the farmhouse. House
perhaps 1688 (Pevsner), farmhouse dated "IC 1691". Ashlar
with graduated stone slate roof, dressed stone farmhouse
with slate roof. 7 x 2 bays with 2 storeys, a central hall
and staircase and 2 wings to the rear. Stone plinth,
rusticated stone quoins, first and second floor bands,
modillion eaves cornice and steep hipped roof. Central door
with steep broken swan-neck pediment and coat of arms. The
jamb is curiously dated 181?. 6 ground floor windows with 2-
light ogee mullion and transom windows, marginal glazing
bars and keystones. 7 first floor sash windows with marginal
glazing bars, cyma-moulded surrounds and keystones. 2 ornate
lead hopper heads and brackets to lead down pipes. Added bay
to right has stone quoins, coped gable and kneelers and
prominent stack. One rear wing has quoins, mullion and
transom windows, modillion eaves cornice and a hipped roof
whereas the other has a 4-light double-chamfered stone
mullion window, 4 2-light mullion and transom windows and a
coped gable with kneelers. The farmhouse is a continuation
of the latter wing: it is of 3 bays and 2 storeys with a
wing to its rear. Stone quoins, coped gables with kneelers
and central chimney stack. 2-light double-chamfered mullion
window to left, chamfered central door surround and blocked
smithy opening to right. The first floor has a 1-light
central window and 2 3-light flat-faced mullion windows
under coped dormer gables with kneelers, one containing the
datestone. The rear has a patio window and raised roofline.
Interior of hall not inspected but the smithy has a massive
hearth with segmental keystone arch.

Listing NGR: SJ9857589287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Mellor Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q6813179

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Recommended Books

• 
  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)