Swythamley Hall

SWYTHAMLEY HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1037821
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
Statutory Address:
SWYTHAMLEY HALL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1037821
Date first listed:
22-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Nov-1987
Statutory Address 1:
SWYTHAMLEY HALL

Location

Statutory Address:
SWYTHAMLEY HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Heaton
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SJ 97272 64592

Details

HEATON C.P. SWYTHAMLEY PARK SJ 96 SE 5/62 Swythamley Hall - GV II

Country house. Medieval hunting lodge foundation, early C19 core, considerably enlarged circa 1897 by Phillip Brocklehurst. Coursed stone, rock-faced quoins to late C19 work; slate roof hipped to late C19 parts. Irregular plan and frontage with classical, Italianate and Jacobean elements. Entrance front: of 4 main parts, and with continuous eaves, cornice and blocking course which serves to unify structure; side stacks. 2 storeys except to early C19 centre core with 3 gabled dormers to gabled attic; 2 original gables to left half over C20 mullioned and transomed bay windows and projecting flat-roofed porch to right half with central flat-roofed 2-storey bay; 5-light mullion and transom window to first floor and round-arch entry to ground flanked by tall cruciform windows. South wing: to right of 3 windows (glazing bar sashes as are all other remaining windows) with break to end bay and string at first floor level, run round into 3-sided bay facing south. North pavilion: of 3 windows and string at first floor level set forward from frontage and linked to house by Italianate tower of 3 stages defined by strings with 2 blind round-arched openings to top stage and door to base. A fire of 1813 destroyed all of the original house except the 'new wing' of which the left half is still visible in the entrance front. Interior: early C19 top-lit stairs with enriched cornice to well.

Listing NGR: SJ9727264592

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