Henlle Hall

Henlle Hall is a country house, dating to 1794, with 19th-century additions and alterations. The main house is constructed of painted and rendered brick, with slate roofs, the flanking pavilions and service ranges having hipped forms.

The main house is two storeys with an attic to a central, projecting, pedimented break, and has cellars lit by segmental-headed windows. A continuous stone floor band and moulded eaves cornice run around the building. The windows are arranged in a 1:1:1 pattern, featuring glazing bar sashes with slightly cambered grooved lintels and projecting keystones. The central entrance is approached by a flight of three steps, leading to a stone Tuscan doorcase with a plain entablature and segmental pediment. Flanking the door are narrow sash windows, and the entrance itself is framed by a six-panel door with a rectangular overlight. Red brick ridge stacks are situated to the left and right, and integral end stacks are present. The pedimented gable ends feature roundels at the centre. Single-storey, hip-roofed pavilions flank the main house, featuring moulded cornices and two-over-two glazing bar sashes to the front.

The rear elevation has a 1:3:1 window arrangement, with a central, two-storey canted bay and a pediment above. Glazing bar sashes are present throughout, although some are blind to the left and right of the pediment, and one has been replaced with a late 20th-century French window on the lower left. A 19th-century brick verandah is attached to the right gable end.

A service range attached to the right gable end to the front dates to the early 19th century and is constructed of stuccoed brick with a slate roof. It has three storeys and four windows, mostly 19th-century segmental-headed cast-iron casements (including some dummies), though one on the first floor has been replaced with a mid-20th-century casement. An L-shaped, hip-roofed block attached to the right pavilion, also likely from the early 19th century, features 16-paned sash windows to the front.

The interior features a stone-flagged entrance hall separated from a corridor by a Roman Ionic colonnade. A fluted round-headed arch to the left leads to an open well staircase with a wreathed handrail, carved decoration to the open string, stick balusters, and a panelled dado. The room in the canted bay to the rear has pilasters with elaborately painted feather decoration and an enriched frieze and cornice. Similar Adam-style decoration is found in other principal ground floor rooms, except for the room to the right of the entrance hall, which has a plain moulded cornice and two panelled cupboards flanking the fireplace; the left cupboard disguises a door giving access to the entrance hall.

A dog-leg staircase in the service range is similar to the main stairs but lacks carving on the string. Panelled doors and window shutters are present throughout, along with several original marble fireplaces with cast-iron Coalbrookdale grates.

Henlle Hall was formerly located in Whittington C.P.