Whitley Hall Hotel

SK39SW ECCLESFIELD ELLIOT LANE (south side)

10/142 Whitley Hall Hotel (formerly listed as Whitley Hall) 25.4.69 II*

House now restaurant, C16, C17 and C18 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Sandstone: earliest work rubble, ashlar garden front, C19 work dressed. Stone slate roofs replaced in part by C20 tiles. U- shaped range of buildings. Garden front: c1700 2½-storey, 7-bay front to an earlier core with 2-storey, 3-bay C17 wing projecting to left and 2-storey, 4-bay double wing of C17, C19 and C20 projecting to right. c1700 front: Rusticated quoins. Central doorway in heavily moulded surround (now partly rendered),consoles and broken segmental pediment. All ground floor bays have 24-pane sashes in architraves. 12-pane sashes in architraves to 1st floor with sundial above central window. 2 gables each with a blind oeil-de-boeuf. Copings to linking parapet and gables. Wing to left: chamfered plinth, central C17 studded oak door in quoined surround with Tudor-arched lintel. Iron casements with leaded lights in tall architraves. Moulded kneelers and gable copings to left. Wing to right: 1980 infill to left has 3 windows to each floor. C19 bay to right with door and window. Ashlar ridge stacks to main range and wings. Entrance front: entrance in recess between 2 C19 2-storey gabled projections. Door in projecting reeded stone surround with frieze and cornice. To right an early ovolo- moulded stair window with mullion and 2 transoms. To lst floor left a 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with king mullion and Gothic glazing. Right return: chamfered plinth. 2 rusticated door surrounds with keyblocks dated 1683, right door widened. Dripmould raised over door surrounds. 2-light double-chamfered mullion windows to left. A section of timber-framed walling to right incorporates some old wallposts. Crow-stepped gable to far right. Interior: within the right door of the right return: a chamfered quoined doorway with flat- pointed lintel inscribed 'WILLIAM PARKER/MADE THIS WORKE/1584'. To upper right room of garden front: oak panelling and good plaster ceiling with floral motifs in high relief.

Listing NGR: SK3450694887