Listed Building record MDR5529 - Latin House, Derby Road, Risley

Latin House, Derby Road, Risley, built in 1706. 'Latin House (or Cottage) to the east of All Saints' Church (SK 43 NE 13) was built subsequent to the foundation of a school here in 1593. This brick building is dated 1706 on a door pediment and comprises two storeys. It is one of the best buildings of its date in the county. The school buildings at Risley form a group of unusual architectural importance and interest.' (1-2) 'Latin House. School house, now house. 1706 with minor 19th & 20th cent. alterations. Built for Elizabeth Grey of Risley Hall. Grade II*.' (3) 'Vernacular building dated to 1706 as indicated by datestone, built in a classical design.' (4) From the National Heritage List for England: 'PARISH OF RISLEY DERBY ROAD SK 46 NE 2/92 (North Side) 2.9.52 Latin House GV II* School house, now house. 1706 with minor C19 and C20 alterations. Built for Elizabeth Grey of Risley Hall. Red brick with vitrified headers to ground floor and fine red brick to first floor. Ashlar dressings, brick plinth with chamfered stone copings, plain first floor stone band, rusticated stone quoins and an elaborately moulded stone cornice, which breaks forward over the quoins and over each keystone of the upper windows to both the south and east elevations. Hipped plain tile roof with large, cross-sectioned brick ridge stacks with stone bands. Square plan, five bays by four bays and two storeys, plus garrets and basement. Main elevation has four semi-circular steps up to a central doorcase with a large, moulded, broken, segmental pediment, with the corners breaking forward, which sit on acanthus consoles, plus a central achievement of the Willoughby family. The outer jambs of the doorcase are plain with a raised fillet to the edge and the frieze is also plain with the inscription 'A MA PUISSANCE MDCCVI' and carved initials to the centre. Within this are the original double, raised and fielded panelled doors set in a moulded eared surround. To either side there are pairs of glazing bar sashes in bolection moulded eared surrounds with raised keystones, each carved with the head of a season, also with plain friezes and cornice-like dripmoulds which project over the keystones. Above there are five glazing bar sashes in moulded eared surrounds with grotesque heads on each keystone, the central window is differentiated by an extra moulding. The east elevation has four blocked windows under flat gauged brick arches with raised, corniced keystones. To ground floor, one is partly cut into by a later glazing bar sash, and above there are three further blocked windows and one glazing bar sash to north. These upper windows are also under flat brick arches but have stone console keystones. Above again there are two pedimented roof dormers with glazing bar casements. West elevation has similar pattern of windows except one ground floor window has been replaced with a plain doorcase. Interior is remarkably plain. Most of the rooms have their original bolection moulded fireplaces with later C18 grates, and have stopped, chamfered central beams. The staircase is largely reconstructed, using the original handrail. The south door is completely blocked up internally with a wall across it but there is a curved central lobby to first floor which must represent the original plan of the ground floor. The original roof timbers are visible in the garrets. Listing NGR: SK4612935679.' (5)