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SK38SW ECCLESALL ROAD SOUTH 784-1/9/288 (South East side) 28/06/73 Banner Cross Hall

GV II

Country house and attached dairy, now offices. 1817-21, with mid C20 additions and alterations. Designed by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville for General Murray. Ashlar with hipped slate roofs and 2 ridge and 6 side wall stacks. Tudor Gothick style. Single range with main block to east and service wing on the same alignment to west. EXTERIOR: plinth, string courses, crenellated parapets. Windows mainly have label moulds. 2 storey main block, 4 windows, has on the northern entrance front a canted 3 storey tower porch with crenellated stair turret. Central cross casement flanked by single blanks and above, a blank roundel flanked by single smaller 2-light casements. Projecting porch has octagonal corner pinnacles and Tudor arched doorway with glazed doors. On either side, a large cross casement. To left, a cross casement and below it a single storey link building with a blank lancet. To right, 2 cross casements and below them, 2 blank lancets. Service wing, to right, has a projecting 2 storey porch with a 2-light casement above and a Tudor arched door below. On either side, two 2-light casements. Below, to left, 2 cross casements, and beyond, a small projection with a single window on each floor. To right, 3 cross casements, partly reglazed. South front has 2 storey main block to right, 5 windows, divided 4:1 by crenellated octagonal pilasters. To left, 3 cross casements and to right a canted stone oriel window. Below, a large hipped canted bay window with cross casements. To its right, a 3-light cross casement. Right bay has a cross casement above and a 3-light cross casement below. East end has a cross casement and below, a canted bay window with cross casements. To the left of the main block, a projecting 2 storey library, with canted right corner with a slit light on each floor, and a projecting square turret on the left corner, with similar fenestration. Between them, a 2-light casement above and a 3-light cross casement below. To the right of the library, a 2-light casement and below it, a door with overlight. To the left of the library, a single window flanked by single 2-light casements. Below, a cross casement flanked by single 3-light cross casements. Attached to the left end, a single storey rendered dairy with crowstepped gable and a cross casement. INTERIOR has Tudor arched doorways and moulded cornices. Octagonal entrance hall has a Tudor arched fireplace and enriched plaster wall panels. Central stair hall has similar wall panels, Gothick frieze and cantilevered stone stair with Gothick balustrade. Service wing has a similar staircase with stick balusters. Dining room, to south, has enriched wall panels and moulded cornice. Classical wooden fireplace in C17 style, with scroll brackets and swan neck pediment. Several C17 carved wood festoons. Other main rooms and corridors have moulded cornices and panelled doors with Gothick decoration. (Derek Linstrum: Sir Jeffry Wyatville - Architect to the King: Oxford: 1972-: 129-131).

Listing NGR: SK3279284642

External Links

• Banner Cross Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4856915

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