Shrigley Hall Hotel And Country Club

Shrigley Hall Hotel and Country Club is a former mansion, dating from around 1825, designed by Thomas Emett Senior of Preston for Sir William Turner. The building is constructed of ashlar brown sandstone with a graded slate roof, partially covered with felt. It is a symmetrical, 11-bay, two-storey structure, with the end and central three bays projecting slightly. The central bay features a pediment and an Ionic tetrastyle porch set on five steps. The building has a plinth band, a plain frieze, and a modillion cornice. A mid-20th century attic storey has been added, although the balustrating over the end bays is a remnant of the original design. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, except for the end bays, which are tripartite with panelled pilasters and segmental tympana. The front doorway is distinguished by a carved architrave, a six-panelled door, and an ornamental rectangular fanlight. A medallion of a lion and cross is located in the pediment. Rubble wings extend to the rear: a three-storey wing to the left and a two-storey wing to the right, both with 16-pane sashes and plain doorcases.

The hall’s entrance features two six-panelled oak doors. Semi-circular headed niches and doorways with moulded soffits are positioned to the left and right. A staircase has been removed, and a false ceiling obscures Ionic capitals, ceiling cornice, and the upper dome. A three-bay room to the right of the hall retains its original ceiling, showcasing an acanthus border, a large rectangular panel with a central band of swags, cornucopiae, elegant tracery, and a central elliptical medallion depicting cornucopiae and acanthus. Similarly, a three-bay room to the left of the hall incorporates four six-panelled walnut doors with moulded panels and raised fields, a running swag frieze, intertwined foliage soffit, and an ovolo cornice. The ceiling cornice is composed of acanthus and intertwined foliage. A black and green-veined chimney breast rests on fluted circular columns. In a room at the left end bay, a twisted vine frieze sits below a modillion cornice, incorporating acanthus and vine motifs in a circular central panel. At the end of this room, wooden Corinthian pilasters divide a two-story well situated beneath a circular skylight, incorporating Corinthian columns and pilasters. The well now houses the staircase. The dome has been converted into a library. The entrance to the vault is flanked by composite order columns supporting a foliate frieze. Within the vault, twisted vine tracery on ropework divides moulded panels, bordered by urns and tracery around a circular light. The mid-19th century plasterwork within the vault may be associated with a rebuild implied by the external masonry.