Description

PARISH OF ALDERWASLEY HIGG LANE (off)
SK 35 SW
2/4
St Benets School (Formerly
Listed as Alderwasley Hall)
13.2.67
II
Country House, now school. Late C18, with C19 additions. Massive ashlar gritstone
with smooth rendered and painted facade, with moulded cornice with parapet above,
ashlar intermediate ridge stacks with moulded caps, slated and lead roof coverings.
Symmetrical main range, with attached range to rear, and added wings at either end
to rear. Main range, three storeys above a basement, seven bays, 3:1:3, the
central bay pedimented, and slightly advanced. The flanking ranges each have a
Venetian window to the central ground floor, otherwise all windows are glazing bar
sashes, diminishing in height from ground to second floor, in plain surrounds,
and with projecting cills. The central bay has a tripartite sash window to the
first floor, and a Diocletian window above. A broad ashlar band separates the
ground floor and first floor openings. Central doorway with moulded eased surround,
pulvinated frieze, and a pediment supported by scrolled brackets. Double four-
panelled doors, the doorway is enclosed by a mid-C19 porch, flat-roofed and single
storeyed, with four columns with banded rustication supporting an entablature.
Side walls have glazing bar sashes with rusticated surrounds and shallow arched
heads with triple keyblocks. Stepped half-bay extensions to south west end, with
ground floor glazing bar sashes. Side elevation has four glazing bar sashes, and
then five glazing bar sashes in the C19 extension. The house was built for
Francis Hurt.

Listing NGR: SK3267853308

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26402811

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