Description

PARISH OF BASLOW & BUBNELL CALVER ROAD
SK 27 SE
3/12 (East Side)
Baslow Hall
II
Small country house. 1907 possibly by Weightman & Hadfield.
C17 vernacular style. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar.
Stone slate roof and coped gables with plain kneelers. Ridge
stack, two lateral stacks, and one rising from the pitch of the
roof. Moulded bands above and below the first floor windows.
Moulded eaves cornice. Two storeys. South elevation of half-H
plan with projecting gabled wings. Flight of three semi-
circular stone steps up to projecting central doorway which has
a hollow moulded surround and fleurons and a halfdomed hood on
moulded brackets. Moulded keystone. Pair of panelled doors.
Flanked by 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. First floor
has a window of two tiers, the upper breaking through the eaves
with a coped parapet. The lower is of 3-2-3 lights, the upper
of 2-2-2 lights. The centre two of both are blind. The return
walls have a single light transomed window to ground floor. The
matching gabled wings have to each floor a mullioned and
transomed window of 1-3-1 lights. Sunk roundels bearing crests,
set in the gables. The side elevation includes a staircase
window which is basically of 4-lights with two transoms, but the
lower transom is broken across the centre two lights by a
round-arch. Interior in rich Jacobean Style. Entrance hall has
beams on moulded corbels, four-centred arched chimneypiece and a
pair of 'art nouveau' looking tripartite screens with stained
glass. The dining room has a Jacobean style plaster ceiling and
the drawing room a more delicate plaster ceiling and an early
C18 style chimneypiece. Staircase hall has closed string
staircase with heavy turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SK2506072878

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Baslow Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26619388

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)