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Listed Building record MDR5257 - The Hallowes Golf Culb, Hallowes Lane, Dronfield

Type and Period (2)

  • (Stuart to Victorian - 1657 AD to 1900 AD?)
  • (Victorian to 21st Century - 1900 AD? to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

The Hallowes Golf Culb, Hallowes Lane, Dronfield, built in 1657. 'SK 3596 7747 Hallowes Golf Club House. The building is H-shaped, with gables on the wings and a datestone of 1657 over the door, with an 18th century segmental pediment over the other door. Windows are low and mullioned, though arranged symmetrically. They are tied to a long uninterrupted string course. (1) '17th century large hall has a fine south front of 3 gables, with the centre slightly recessed. Coping, bands, and mullioned windows. In each gabled end are oval recessed features, each with 4 keystone-shaped decorations.' (2) 'Vernacular building dated to 1657.' (3) From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF DRONFIELD HALLOWES LANE SK 37 NE 6/36 Hallowes Golf Clubhouse (formerly listed as 9.1.67 Hallowes Hall including Gazebo) GV II Golf Clubhouse, formerly a house. 1657, but with C20 alterations and additions. Coursed squared coal measures sandstone, with ashlar dressings, coped gables with moulded kneelers and gable and ridge ashlar stacks. H-plan house with symmetrical elevations to north and south. South elevation, three storeys, six bays, three gabled front, the outer gables advanced. Central doorway with moulded surrounds, with hoodmould with dropped returns. Above, a semi-circular door head with curved dripmould, the doorhead bearing the inscription M 16 57. AM Six panelled door. Stacked 2-light chamfer mullioned windows flank the doorway. Within the gable apex is a further 2-light mullioned window with dripmould below a blind oculus. The advanced flanking gables each have stacked pairs of 3-light chamfer mullioned windows to ground and first floors beneath stringcourses which return to the central range to cover the windows flanking the doorway. Each outer gable has a 2-light attic window beneath a dripmould, and a blind oculus. At either end of the main range are single storey C20 additions. North elevation with advanced outer bays, gabled, and with attached two bay range parallel to the main central range with 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, and a ridge stack at the west end. This range may have been an external kitchen. The interior of the building has been substantially remodelled, but some rooms retain moulded plasterwork to spine beams, cornices and simple enrichments. The attic floor to the east crosswing retains two upper cruck trusses. Listing NGR: SK3598777469.' (4)

Sources/Archives (4)

  • <1> Index: NDAT. 3751. 3751.
  • <2> Verbal communication: Anon. Personal communication. P. Staunton.
  • <3> Index: Evans, R. 1976. Some dated vernacular buildings in Derbyshire.
  • <4> Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1040053?section=official-list-entry.

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Location

Grid reference SK 35987 77469 (point)
Civil Parish DRONFIELD, NORTH EAST DERBYSHIRE, DERBYSHIRE

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Mar 28 2025 11:53AM

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