Parkhead Hall And Adjoining Former Stable Yard And Coach House

Parkhead Hall is a small country house with adjoining former stable yard and coach house, built between 1864 and 1865. It was designed by J.B. Mitchel Withers for his own residence, and later enlarged in 1900 by R.G. Hammond and in 1903 by Wyngard, Dixon & Sandford for Sir Robert Hadfield, a steel manufacturer. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings, topped with hipped plain tile roofs, and features three ridge and three side wall coped stone stacks.

The house is in the Gothic Revival style. The east front has a projecting two-storey porch with a hipped roof and decorative finials. The first floor features a two-light pointed arch window with plate tracery, flanked by smaller single lancet windows with plainer tracery. The triple arched entrance has moulded arches, shafts, and linked hoodmoulds. The central opening contains a glazed double door with a fanlight; the flanking arches have single windows. A stone staircase leads to the entrance. To the left of the porch is a small single lancet window, and to its left a buttressed stack flanked by allegorical reliefs in square panels. A canted corner features a single lancet window above and a cross casement below. To the right is a pointed arched recess with a double lancet flanked by relief panels, and below, a three-light cross casement. The south-facing garden front has a two-bay addition constructed in a similar style, with canted two-storey bay windows topped with finials. The right bay contains a segmental pointed three-light window flanked by single lancets with a linked hoodmould, and below, a three-light cross casement flanked by two-light cross casements. The left bay has a flat-headed three-light window with a label mould, flanked by single light windows. Below, a three-light cross casement is flanked by a two-light cross casement to the left and a similar window that has been altered into a French window to the right. The rear of the property includes a small stable yard enclosed by a coped wall with a central segmental pointed carriage gateway with a shouldered coped gable. To the right of the yard is a single coach house with a truncated pyramidal roof. The interior of the buildings was not inspected. The building was vacant at the time of the survey.