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Listed Building: CALLOW HALL (1281646)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 183, 7, 43
Date assigned 14 June 1984
Date last amended

Description

'SK 14 NE PARISH OF MAPLETON ASHBOURNE ROAD 7/43 (North Side) Callow Hall GV II House. 1848-52 by Henry Stevens of Derby. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone with gritstone dressings. Slate roofs and stone coped gables with kneelers. Stone ridge stacks and gable end stacks, with cornices. Two storeys, chamfered plinth, first floor string band, quoins and moulded eaves cornice. L-plan. Elizabethan style. Main, south west range. East front asymmetrical with three gables, the right hand one larger than the others. Heavy central porch, open on three sides with moulded round arches. Rusticated angles, cornice and openwork parapet, the angle piers with banded ball finials. Large C19 half glazed door. On the left, a 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window and on the right similar 3-light and 2-light windows. On the first floor beneath gables, two 2-light and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window with dripmoulds. To the right, a smaller 2-light mullioned and transomed window set lower down. Symmetrical south elevation of three bays beneath three gables, the centre one smaller and lower. Centre bay projects, with four narrow slit windows to the ground floor and a large bay window above breaking into an oriel. Parapet with quatrefoil frieze. Flanking bays with a 3-light mullioned and transomed window to each floor. An oval light to each gable. West elevation has 2,3, 4 and 5-light mullioned and transomed windows and a canted bay. Simpler one and a half storey north east service wing with a 4-light mullioned window with two transoms. In the angle between the two wings, a belltower with round-arched opening to each face and a concave pyramidal roof. The house was designed on a much more ambitious scale but was reduced in size before building commenced. Listing NGR: SK1696347064.'

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Sources (1)

  • Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1281646?section=official-list-entry.

Map

Location

Grid reference SK 16963 47064 (point)
Map sheet SK14NE
Civil Parish MAPLETON, DERBYSHIRE DALES, DERBYSHIRE

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Sep 3 2023 6:06PM

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