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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545299

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)