Smalley Hall And Conservatory

Smalley Hall and Conservatory is a house with an attached conservatory, originally built in the 18th century, with later additions and alterations from the late 19th century and around 1902 by Macpherson of Derby. The building is made of rendered brick with stone dressings. The 18th-century house features rusticated stone quoins, a stone plinth, and a moulded stone cornice, while the 19th-century addition has a plain stone first-floor band and a moulded stone cornice. The roofs are shallow slate with rendered ridge and side wall stacks.

The structure has three storeys, with a two-storey addition and consists of four bays plus a two-bay addition. The garden front shows the 18th-century house to the east, the slightly recessed 19th-century addition to the north, and the conservatory beyond it. The 18th-century house has two uneven glazing bar sash windows in moulded shouldered surrounds with dripmoulds on the south side, and a c1902 doorcase on the north side, flanked by narrow glazing bar sashes in similar surrounds. The doorcase features Ionic half shafts, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment with steeple finials, along with a plain sash below. Above are four unevenly spaced glazing bar sashes in similar surrounds, and above again, six moulded surrounds, four with plain sashes and two blocked.

Attached to the north is the 19th-century addition, which includes two two-storey canted bay windows with glazing bar sashes, and beyond that is the conservatory featuring an advanced canted bay at the center with a hipped roof. The entrance front has an advanced bay to the east with a 19th-century two-storey canted bay window, a recessed central section with a c1902 stone porch to the east, and 18th-century sashes above. There is also a c1902 tower to the west with an addition of the same date beyond it. The canted bay window has glazing bar sashes both above and below, and the porch features a segmental pedimented doorcase. The tower includes a 20th-century doorcase with a plain sash above and a glazed lantern on top. The addition to the west is of no particular interest. The interior, dating from 1902, is of good quality and designed in an 18th-century style, featuring a large open well staircase with knobbed and twisted balusters.