Shrigley Hall Hotel And Country Club

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SJ 97 NW 5/98

POTT SHRIGLEY C.P. SHRIGLEY ROAD (North Side) Shrigley Park Shrigley Hall Hotel and Country Club

(Formerly listed as Salesian Missionary College, previously listed as Shrigley Hall)

25/7/1952

GV II* Former mansion now hotel and country club: C.1825 by Thomas Emett Senior of Preston for Sir William Turner. Ashlar brown sandstone with graded slate and partly felted roof. 2-storey, symmetrical, 11-bay front, with end and 3 centre bays breaking slightly forward. Centre has pediment and Ionic tetrastyle porch on 5 steps. Plinth band, plain frieze and modillion cornice. Mid C20 attic storey but balustrating over end bays is the remains of original treatment. Windows, sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals, except end bays which are tripartite with panelled pilasters and segmental tympana. Doorway has carved architrave, 6-panelled door and ornamental rectangular fanlight. Medallion in pediment, of lion and cross. Rubble wings to rear, 3 storey to left and 2 storey to right, both with 16-pane sashes and plain doorcases. Interior: Hall. Entry through 2, 6-panelled oak doors, semi-circular headed niches and doorways with moulded soffits to left and right. Staircase removed and false ceiling hides Ionic capitals and ceiling cornice, and cuts off upper dome. 3 bay room to right of hall has original ceiling. Acanthus border, with large rectangular panel with central band of swags. Cornucopiae and elegant tracery in corners and central elliptical medallion of cornucopiae and acanthus. 3-bay room to left of hall has 4, 6-panelled walnut doors with moulded panels and raised fields. Running swag frieze, intertwined foliage soffit and ovolo cornice. Ceiling cornice of acanthus and intertwined foliage. Black and green-veined chimney breast on fluted circular columns. Left end bay room: Twisted vine frieze below modillion cornice with acanthus and vine motifs in circular central panel. End of room, divided by wooden Corinthian pilasters, leads to 2-storey well behind, under circular skylight, and containing Corinthian columns and pilasters. It now contains the staircase. Dome has been converted into a library. Entrance between composite order columns supporting a foliate frieze. Vault contains twisted vine tracery on ropework dividing moulded panels with a border of urns and tracery around circular light. Plasterwork in vault, mid C19, may belong to rebuild of vault implied by external masonry.

Listing NGR: SJ9426179805