Description

SK 47 NE PARISH OF BARLBOROUGH PARKHALL LANE,SPINKHILL 1/44 (South Side) 26.8.65 Park Hall GV II*

Small country house, now an hotel. C17, C18 and C19. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Stone slate roofs with various stone ridge stacks. Stone coped gables with ball finials. Square plan, each facade with three gables. Three storeys. First and second floor bands. The garden elevation has three square bays, rising through two storeys and with castellated parapets. The centre bay has a round arched entrance with pair of glazed doors and overlight. The outer bays have a pair of glazing bar sashes in ashlar surrounds. Three similar pairs of windows above and above again. The centre bay is flanked by two tiers of glazing bar sashes. Three small pointed arched windows in the gables, with returned hoodmoulds. The entrance front has glazing bar sashes and a deeply projecting two storey porch, similar to the centre bay on the garden front. The other two elevations have an irregular arrangement of glazing bar sashes, cross windows, a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window. The interior has the upper flight of a stick baluster staircase. The upper flight of the back staircase has closed string and heavy turned balusters. Dog gate with splat balusters. By the back stairs a stone spiral staircase leads onto the roof. Plaster cornice. Lord Byron's room has early C18 oak panelling and a bolection moulded fireplace. C19 Rococo chimneypiece in the functions room. The main bar has a stone bolection moulded fireplace, the built-in back dated 1656. C17 panelling. The room above the bar has C17 style panelling and an elaborate C19 Rococo chimneypiece.

Listing NGR: SK4626478794

External Links

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