Listed Building record MDR6158 - Park Hall, Parkhall Lane, Barlborough
Type and Period (2)
- COUNTRY HOUSE (Elizabethan to Mid 20th Century - 1600 AD? to 1950 AD?)
- HOTEL (Mid 20th Century to 21st Century - 1950 AD? to 2050 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
Park Hall, Parkhall Lane, Barlborough originally a 17th century building.
'Park Hall, Barlborough, is a 17th century house of three storeys with three straight gables, two symmetrical castellated bay windows, and a central castellated porch. The building looks as if it might be of the middle of the century.' (1)
Park Hall Country Club is a substantial 17th century stone building with 18th century and later alterations. Above the porch on the west front is a date 16 [5 or 6 ?] and a fire-place is said to be dated 1656 - the latter feature was not seen by this investigator. See GP: AO/60/34/2 - Park Hall from the west. (2)
Park Hall, said to have been built in 1656, is a two-storey coarse ashlar building with attic, coped gables and two storey projecting porch with battlemented parapet. Interior panelling. Grade 2*. (3)
From the National Heritage List for England:
'SK 47 NE PARISH OF BARLBOROUGH PARKHALL LANE,SPINKHILL 1/44 (South Side) 26.8.65 Park Hall GV II*
Small country house, now an hotel. C17, C18 and C19. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Stone slate roofs with various stone ridge stacks. Stone coped gables with ball finials. Square plan, each facade with three gables. Three storeys. First and second floor bands. The garden elevation has three square bays, rising through two storeys and with castellated parapets. The centre bay has a round arched entrance with pair of glazed doors and overlight. The outer bays have a pair of glazing bar sashes in ashlar surrounds. Three similar pairs of windows above and above again. The centre bay is flanked by two tiers of glazing bar sashes. Three small pointed arched windows in the gables, with returned hoodmoulds. The entrance front has glazing bar sashes and a deeply projecting two storey porch, similar to the centre bay on the garden front. The other two elevations have an irregular arrangement of glazing bar sashes, cross windows, a 2-light recessed and chamfered mullion window, and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window. The interior has the upper flight of a stick baluster staircase. The upper flight of the back staircase has closed string and heavy turned balusters. Dog gate with splat balusters. By the back stairs a stone spiral staircase leads onto the roof. Plaster cornice. Lord Byron's room has early C18 oak panelling and a bolection moulded fireplace. C19 Rococo chimneypiece in the functions room. The main bar has a stone bolection moulded fireplace, the built-in back dated 1656. C17 panelling. The room above the bar has C17 style panelling and an elaborate C19 Rococo chimneypiece.
Listing NGR: SK4626478794.'
(5)
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SDR190 Bibliographic reference: Pevsner, N. 1953. The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, 1st edition. 199.
- <2> SDR6496 Personal Observation: F1 WW 10-MAY-60.
- <3> SDR5155 Bibliographic reference: DOE (HHR) Clowne RD Derby Sept 1961 4.
- <4> SDR10866 Index: NDAT. 0211. 0211.
- <5> SDR19551 Listed Building File: Historic England. 2011. The National Heritage List for England. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1372089?section=official-list-entry.
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Location
| Grid reference | SK 46264 78794 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | BARLBOROUGH, BOLSOVER, DERBYSHIRE |
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- EDR966
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Record last edited
Jun 19 2024 3:52PM