Listing Text

WORSLEY PEEL LANE
SD 70 SW
(east side)
1/46 Peel Hall
including stable
quadrangle
(formerly listed
as main building
and Gateway and
5/8/82 Clock Tower)
- II

House and stable wing, now hospital. 1845. Attributed by
some to Charles Barry and by others to E. M. Barry, his son:
Neither appears likely. Brick with stone dressings and slate
roof. Asymmetrical plan with a total of 13 x 5 bays and 2
storeys with stable courtyard attached to rear left. Loose
Tudor and Elizabethan style. Picturesquely composed
elevation with quoins, projecting plinth and continuous
first floor band. Entrance tower feature in bay 12 is
castellated, has 4 stages, and an ornate oriel window on the
third stage.Coped gables with kneelers and finials in bays
1, 5 and 6, and 13. Double-chamfered stone mullion windows
of 1, 2, 3 and 5 lights some with transoms. Bold chimney
stacks which have had diagonally set shafts removed. The
right return is partly obscured by a C20 first floor
veranda but has advanced gables in bays 2 and 5, a pierced
parapet and similar windows to above except for a 2-storey
canted bay with elaborate strapwork parapet. Clock-tower
feature in rear courtyard has arched belfry openings on each
side and a pyramidal roof behind a strapwork parapet. The
arched entrance to the stable courtyard has a corbelled
cornice surmounted by a heavy masonry clock turret in turn
crowned by an octagonal lantern with an ogee cap rising out
of a pyramid, all with carved decoration, finials, urns etc.
Inside the courtyard are several arched carriage bays (some
blocked) and accommodation for horses and storage. Interior:
the house retains fine but fussy decoration using a mixture
of motifs to the entrance hall, stair hall and principal
rooms. Stone fireplace, plaster ceilings, timber panelling
and a grand staircase in a Jacobean style lit by a stained
glass window.

Listing NGR: SD7193403395