Description

HENBURY C.P. HENBURY PARK
SJ 87 SE

7/26 Henbury Hall
25 7 52

GV II

Stable block, now small country house. Late C17, altered. Rendered
and painted brick with stone dressings and slate roof with wood and
lead clock cupola. Two storeys. Entrance front: 9 bays in
A.B.B.B.C.B.B.B.A. rhythm. Stone pilasters to corners and either side
of central bay and paired between first and second and eighth and
ninth bays all having moulded bases and capitals. Central 2 storey
archway in slightly projecting gabled bay. Exposed keystone, stone
voussoirs and springers. Three bays of 3-light chamfered windows with
mullions and transoms to either side with oval pitchholes to first
floor with exposed stone surrounds. Left hand bay has half-glazed
door imposed on three-light window with 3-light first floor window
without transom. Three-light ground and first floor windows to right
hand end bay. The central archway and pitchholes are now glazed.
Octagonal cupola to roof with round clock faces and semi-circular
arched louvres alternating. Octagonal dome over supporting bellcote
with arched openings, again domed and carrying a gilded ball and
weather vane.

Courtyard front: Red Flemish bond brick. Brick band between floors.
Central arch as before with stone quoins, voussoirs and keystone
although not in projecting bay and with 3-light first floor window
above. To right of this are 4 bays in similar rhythm to those on the
entrance front but having first floor windows of 3 transomed lights.
Six bays to left hand side having alternating three and two-light
windows to first floor and two doors to ground floor with porches
supported on brackets and three and two-light ground floor windows
between.

Listing NGR: SJ8697572953

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Henbury Hall, Cheshire at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5713070

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living