Padley Hall

SK 35 SE RIPLEY HAMMERSMITH (west side)

3/88 Padley Hall

29.11.65

II*

House. Mid C17 with late C19 additions. Ashlar with red brick additions, stone dressings and quoins. Plain tile roofs with large brick ridge stack, rebuilt in C19 and external side wall stack to left gable, moulded stone coped gables with ogee ball finials to ridge and eaves and flush parapets with moulded copings. Lobby entrance plan. Two storeys plus attics and three bays, all gabled and that to left advanced. Plinth. To right of central bay is an advanced two storey porch with segment headed arch and four-centred arched inner doorcase with original studded door. All windows to ground and first floors are recessed and chamfered and mullioned and transomed, with continuous dripmoulds. To right of porch is a window of 4-lights and to left there is one of 2-lights, one of 4-lights and a 5- light window in the advanced bay. Similar window above and 3 4-light windows to right, that in the porch slightly higher than the others so dripmould steps up over it. Flush parapets to porch with numerous finials, other bays with 3-light recessed and chamfered mullion windows plus dripmoulds in gables. Right gable wall has 5-light recessed and chamfered mullioned and transomed windows with continuous dripmoulds to ground and first floors and 3-light mullioned window with dripmould above in the gable. Rear elevation with red brick additions. Interior largely remodelled, staircase renewed, but chamfered ceilings beams to most rooms.

Listing NGR: SK3946051434