HOLMESFIELD HALL

HOLMESFIELD HALL, MAIN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1109637
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: HOLMESFIELD HALL
Statutory Address:: HOLMESFIELD HALL, MAIN ROAD

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Date:: 2000-06-13
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1109637
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: HOLMESFIELD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: HOLMESFIELD HALL, MAIN ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOLMESFIELD HALL, MAIN ROAD

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Holmesfield
National Grid Reference:: SK 31937 77683

Details

PARISH OF HOLMESFIELD MAIN ROAD SK 37 NW 5/161 Holmesfield Hall 31.1.67 GV II* House. Early C17, remodelled in C18, refurbished 1983-5. Ashlar and coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with shallow plinth, quoins, moulded eaves cornice, ridge and gable ashlar stacks. Hipped Welsh slated roof and stone stacks to remodelled C18 addition to rear. L-plan house, with evidence of advanced wing to east end. South elevation two storeys, three bays with 3-light flush mullioned windows to end bays, 4-light windows to centre. First floor windows shallower than those to ground floor, and with cills linked by a continuous band course. Ground floor window at west end blocked. Doorway west of centre with moulded architrave, pulvinated frieze, bracketed broken pediment supporting an achievement with the motto 'VIRTUS ARDUA VINCET'. C20 panelled door. West elevation with flush mullioned and transomed window, with basement level now blocked. A single light, a 4-light and a taller 2-light mullioned window beneath dripmoulds, that to the 4-light opening with label stops. Two first floor sash windows in flush surrounds and a blocked single light opening to the east. East elevation with mid wall quoining, which pre-dates the C17 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, to the east end, the most central example being blocked. To the west of the intermediate quoining, two glazing bar sashes, 4 x 4 panes with three narrower lights above. Interior. C17 oak square panelling to two ground floor rooms, with some C18 panelling also, elsewhere at ground and first floor level some pine plank and muntin partitioning with simple scratch mould decoration. C17 ornamental overmantle with strapwork and carved embellishment to eastern ground floor, which also has C17 moulded plaster ceilings divided into square panels, with applied enrichment to beam soffits and panels. Evidence of an advanced wing now lost in this area may be seen in the disturbed panels of ceiling plasterwork on the south side. The central ground floor room has a C17 stone hearth with massive cambered head and quoined surround. West range retains a late C17 triple arch hearth range.

Listing NGR: SK3193777683

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.