Morthen Hall

SK48NE WHISTON MORTHEN HALL LANE (north side) 8/102 Morthen Hall 29.3.68 GV II* Country house. Early C18, wings later. Dressed sandstone, Welsh slate. Symmetrical facade: main range 2 storeys with attics, 7 bays; lower side wings, 2 storeys, 3 bays. Main range: plinth, large projecting quoins. Part-glazed, panelled door in shouldered and eared architrave with rectangular panel above and segmental pediment. Flanking windows are all sashes with glazing bars in slightly projecting surrounds with bead-moulded inner arrises and moulded sills. lst-floor band. Apron panel to central window which has moulded sill, shouldered and eared architrave, console-shaped keystone and cornice. Other windows as ground floor. 5-bay pediment, in tympanum oculus with glazing bars in architrave. Balustrade above outer bays terminating at die with depressed-scroll brackets. Hipped roof with corniced ashlar ridge stacks. Wing to left, set back: plinth at ground-floor sill level, 3 sashes with glazing bars in quoined surrounds with flat arches. lst-floor sill band beneath 3 small 6-pane casements. Cornice. Hipped roof with elongated corniced ashlar ridge stack. Wing to right: similar but with margin-light sashes to ground floor, compact ridge stack. Rear: large round-arched stair window to left of centre has rusticated quoined surround to large sash with Gothick glazing bars. Interior: well-preserved, including room to front left with marble fireplace, Composite pilasters, modillioned cornice and panelled plaster ceiling. Stone- paved inner entrance hall with archivolts to side doors; wood staircase with curved iron balusters. Landing with bolection-moulded door surrounds, ornate Doric frieze. Several other good fireplaces including one to lst-floor rear right with ogee-arched panel and Blue John inlay. Service stairs with splat and turned balustrades. Unaltered service wing to left retains original C19 fittings including kitchen ranges and hand pump. Former home of the Athorpe and Middleton-Carver families. An 1809 inventory for the house exists. Athorpe Muniments 1544, Sheffield City Library, Archives.

Listing NGR: SK4788689476