Description

SK39SW ECCLESFIELD ELLIOT LANE
(south side)

10/142 Whitley Hall Hotel
(formerly listed
as Whitley Hall)
25.4.69
II*

House now restaurant, C16, C17 and C18 with C19 and C20 additions and
alterations. Sandstone: earliest work rubble, ashlar garden front, C19
work dressed. Stone slate roofs replaced in part by C20 tiles. U-
shaped range of buildings. Garden front: c1700 2½-storey, 7-bay front
to an earlier core with 2-storey, 3-bay C17 wing projecting to left and
2-storey, 4-bay double wing of C17, C19 and C20 projecting to right.
c1700 front: Rusticated quoins. Central doorway in heavily moulded
surround (now partly rendered),consoles and broken segmental pediment.
All ground floor bays have 24-pane sashes in architraves. 12-pane
sashes in architraves to 1st floor with sundial above central window.
2 gables each with a blind oeil-de-boeuf. Copings to linking parapet
and gables. Wing to left: chamfered plinth, central C17 studded oak
door in quoined surround with Tudor-arched lintel. Iron casements
with leaded lights in tall architraves. Moulded kneelers and gable
copings to left. Wing to right: 1980 infill to left has 3 windows to
each floor. C19 bay to right with door and window. Ashlar ridge
stacks to main range and wings. Entrance front: entrance in recess
between 2 C19 2-storey gabled projections. Door in projecting reeded
stone surround with frieze and cornice. To right an early ovolo-
moulded stair window with mullion and 2 transoms. To lst floor left a
4-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion and Gothic
glazing. Right return: chamfered plinth. 2 rusticated door surrounds
with keyblocks dated 1683, right door widened. Dripmould raised over
door surrounds. 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows to left.
A section of timber-framed walling to right incorporates some old
wallposts. Crow-stepped gable to far right. Interior: within the
right door of the right return: a chamfered quoined doorway with flat-
pointed lintel inscribed 'WILLIAM PARKER/MADE THIS WORKE/1584'. To
upper right room of garden front: oak panelling and good plaster
ceiling with floral motifs in high relief.

Listing NGR: SK3450694887

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Whitley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7996568

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