Dunkenhalgh Hotel

In the entry for CLAYTON-LE-MOORS HERMITAGE STREET

2/62 Dunkenhalgh Hotel

he item shall be amended to read CLAYTON-LE-MOORS BLACKBURN ROAD

Dunkenhalgh Hotel

CLAYTON-LE-MOORS HERMITAGE STREET SD 73 SW 2/62 Dunkenhalgh Hotel 11.7.1966 (Formerly listed under Blackburn Road) G.V. II

Large house, seat of Petre family, substantially C19 but incorporating parts of house first built by Judge Thomas Walmsley c.1600; now hotel. Mainly coursed sandstone rubble (part rendered) with ashlar facade; 3-span and 2-span roofs of slate and some stone slate, with various clustered chimneys, and glazed circular lantern. Compound T-shaped plan, formed by additions to part of C17 house. Two storeys in castellated Tudor style. Symmetrical embattled 5-bay centre range with embattled single storey porch and cross windows, flanked by higher embattled crosswings which project slightly and have different windows. Battlements of right wing carry round 5-bay west front which has in the centre an embattled ground floor portal with corners continued as very high octagonal turrets with embattled caps; between these the parapets is raised and carries a coat of arms with motto "SANS DIEU RIEN"; and cross windows on both floors. Rear is very irregular, but includes part of C17 range (altered) and attached to this a service wing (C18) with arcaded ground floor. Interior: some ex situ panelling with very elaborate early C17 oak overmantel lettered "TW" "AW" (said to come from Hacking Hall); various early C19 plaster mouldings (friezes with oak leaves etc); decoration in one room incorporating C17 and C18 portraits of members of Walmsley family; series of Cl7 roof trusses with collars and trenched purlins. (Ainsworth Homesteads pp. 323-335).

Listing NGR: SD7401830091