Description

PARISH OF HASSOP OFF BAKEWELL ROAD SK 27 SW 2/150 (West Side) 29.9.51 Hassop Hall GV II* Country house, now hotel. C17, early C18, extensively remodelled 1827-33. Coursed squared limestone with sandstone dressings and quoins. Sandstone ashlar. Hipped and welsh slate roofs with various ashlar stacks. One and three storeys. Principal south elevation remodelled in 1827-33. Symmetrical seven bays. Ashlar, with plain first and second floor bands and intermediate sill bands. Moulded cornice and partly balustraded parapet. Central Tuscan Doric pedimented doorcase. Pair of half glazed doors. Glazing bar sash above has moulded architrave with segmental pediment. Moulded circular window above again with hoodmould in the form of a garland. Flanked by full height canted bays with three glazing bar sashes to each floor. Bays two and six have half-domed niche to ground floor a glazing bar sash above and a circular window with moulded surround above again. West elevation of six bays. The two bays to the right form a return elevation to the main front, ashlar faced, with first and second floor bands and sill bands, and two glazing bar sashes to each floor. The third bay has a Tuscan Doric porch to ground floor. The facade above is stepped back and of coursed limestone with, to each floor, a glazing bar sash in keyed raised ashlar surround. Truncated three bays to left now only single storeyed, each bay stepped back, with angle quoins and glazing bar sashes in ashlar surrounds. East elevation of four bays, three of them rendered, with glazing bar sashes and blind windows. Ashlar parapet with arched crenellations. North elevation with early C18 fenestration of glazing bar sashes in keyed ashlar surrounds and a round-arched staircase window. Interior much altered in the C20 with various imported C18 interior features. Surviving original features are mostly features from the early C19. The Morning Room and the Drawing Room have carved marble chimneypieces by White Watson, of Ashford-in-the-Water. Broken pediments to the Morning Room door architraves. Late Georgian style joinery and plasterwork in the Drawing Room. Bedroom No 25 has an early C16 plaster overmantle with pilasters and the eyre Coat of Arms. In the adjoining bathroom is a C16 3-light mullioned and transomed window, now blocked. The Green Sitting Room has a marble Tuscan columned chimneypiece with inset coloured marbles.

Listing NGR: SK2219572216

External Links

• Hassop Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5680105

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