Description

SE60SW CANTLEY SCHOOL LANE (west side, off) 3/55 Cantley Hall and 5th June 1968 attached outbuildings. GV II* Country house (with attached outbuildings). 1785 for Childers Walbank Childers (Miller p212); altered 1802 by Hurst of Doncaster for J. W. Childers (Colvin. p522); ballroom added 1870 (Pevsner, p622). Stuccoed brick, graduated Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys; 2:3:2-bay entrance front with lower 2-bay service wing set back on left; 3:2:3-bay garden front on right return with 1-storey ballroom addition of 1870 on its right. Entrance front: plinth, painted facade. Centre breaks forward and has 3-step stylobate to an Ionic portico with paired side columns and single pilasters beneath dentilled entablature; double panelled door within has overlight with decorative radial glazing bars and corniced architrave. Other bays have projecting sills to sashes with glazing (bays 6 and 7 walled-up internally). 1st floor: band beneath windows as ground floor. Dentilled eaves cornice rising as central 3-bay pediment with apex stack; corniced ashlar parapet has balustraded panels over outer bays. Hipped roof with various other stacks. Service wing, set back on left, retains one sash with glazing bars to 1st-floor left. 1-storey outbuilding attached on left includes a projecting octagonal game larder with open sides. Garden front (right return): 2-storey, 3-bay canted projections flank 2-bay centre. Altered ground-floor fenestration of large sashes and French windows to bay 2, centre and bay 6. 1st floor as front (except centre bay has two 8-pane sashes). Cornice and unpainted parapet as front. Ballroom addition on right: mullioned and transomed 5 x 1-light bay-window projection has ovolo-moulded window surrounds, cornice and miniature parapet with balustraded panel; semi- circular window over; eaves cornice and coped parapet with balustraded panel. Right return of ballroom 2 similar bay-window projections. Interior: stair hall has stone paving with black insets; trompe l'oeil wall panelling; wooden staircase with finely-turned balusters and cantilevered flight rising to a landing set on Corinthian columns; domed lantern with radial glazing bars and coved surround with husk garlands and paterae. Front-right room is an elongated octagon with 6-panel doors and fine wooden fire surround; Neo-classical wall panels and 2 semi-domed niches with side pilasters and anthemion motifs; frieze with vases and cornice with guttae. Adjacent room has fireplace with old iron grate and anthemion frieze. Rear- right room is round-ended with wall panels as front-right room but with excellent plaster ceiling having radial pattern of vases and anthemion motifs set in a square with matching fan-shaped panels at each end; ceiling frieze has vases and figurines in repetition. Ballroom of 1870: pine panelling and painted panelling to match; gallery at one end; compartmented ceiling. 1st floor: small octagonal rooms in each canted projection. outbuildings; game larder has stone benches, centre pole and rows of iron hooks; small room adjacent has benches, troughs and weighing device on wall. J. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804. H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1650-1840, 1973 ed. N. Pevsner, B.O.E., 1967 ed. Drawing signed 'Lindley 1802' in Hailstone Collection, York Minster Library (similar but not identical to the design executed).

Listing NGR: SE6249102139

External Links

• Cantley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5033838

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