Callow Hall, Mapleton
Description: Callow Hall
Grade: II
Date Listed: 14 June 1984
English Heritage Building ID: 80314
OS Grid Reference: SK1696347064
OS Grid Coordinates: 416963, 347064
Latitude/Longitude: 53.0206, -1.7486
Location: Mapleton, Derbyshire DE6 2AA
Locality: Mapleton
Local Authority: Derbyshire Dales
County: Derbyshire
Country: England
Postcode: DE6 2AA
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Listing Text
SK 14 NE PARISH OF MAPLETON ASHBOURNE ROAD
7/43 (North Side)
Callow Hall
GV II
House. 1848-52 by Henry Stevens of Derby. Coursed squared rock-faced limestone
with gritstone dressings. Slate roofs and stone coped gables with kneelers.
Stone ridge stacks and gable end stacks, with cornices. Two storeys, chamfered
plinth, first floor string band, quoins and moulded eaves cornice. L-plan.
Elizabethan style. Main, south west range. East front asymmetrical with three
gables, the right hand one larger than the others. Heavy central porch, open on
three sides with moulded round arches. Rusticated angles, cornice and openwork
parapet, the angle piers with banded ball finials. Large C19 half glazed door.
On the left, a 2-light ovolo moulded mullioned and transomed window and on the
right similar 3-light and 2-light windows. On the first floor beneath gables,
two 2-light and a 3-light mullioned and transomed window with dripmoulds. To
the right, a smaller 2-light mullioned and transomed window set lower down.
Symmetrical south elevation of three bays beneath three gables, the centre one
smaller and lower. Centre bay projects, with four narrow slit windows to the
ground floor and a large bay window above breaking into an oriel. Parapet with
quatrefoil frieze. Flanking bays with a 3-light mullioned and transomed
window to each floor. An oval light to each gable. West elevation has 2,3,
4 and 5-light mullioned and transomed windows and a canted bay. Simpler one and a
half storey north east service wing with a 4-light mullioned window with two
transoms. In the angle between the two wings, a belltower with round-arched
opening to each face and a concave pyramidal roof. The house was designed on a
much more ambitious scale but was reduced in size before building commenced.
Listing NGR: SK1696347064
Source: English Heritage
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