Westwood Hall

LEEK

SJ95NE WESTWOOD PARK AVENUE 611-1/1/138 (West side) 10/03/75 Westwood Hall

GV II

House, in use as school since c1920. 1850-53. By Hadfield Weightman and Goldie. For John Davenport, son of John Davenport the founder of the Davenport Pottery Company at Leek. Red sandstone ashlar with plain and scallop-tiled roofs. Jacobean style with robust detailing throughout. EXTERIOR: 2-storeyed with attics. Entrance front: clock tower towards left, with round archway with heavy voussoirs and keystone in lower storey, 2 and 4-light mullioned windows above. Oriel window in main range set beneath tower. Coped gables over clock in each elevation, and gableted turret finial with weather vane. To right of tower, 5-window range symmetrically planned with central projecting full-height entrance porch flanked by canted bay windows with 3-mullioned lights, and outer 4-light mullioned and transomed windows with leaded glazing. Continuous cill band to first-floor windows, which are also mullioned and transomed, and all windows have hollow chamfering to mullions, and dripmoulds. Round-arched doorway to porch, chamfered and with pendant keystone. 4-light mullioned and transomed window above. Segmental pediment to parapet of porch. 3 coped gables with ball finials to attics. Garden front: 8-window range, asymmetrical, with 3 gabled range terminated by higher gable to right. 2-storeyed canted bay window in left-hand gable, and paired 4-light mullioned and transomed windows in central gable. (3-lights to first floor). Right-hand gable has full-height bow window with conical roof. Advanced and higher gable beyond, of 3 full-storeys with paired 4-light mullioned and transomed windows with leaded patterned glazing, and round-arched mullions. Upper windows of 3 and 2-lights to first floor, 4 and 2-lights to attic. Gable itself coped, with stack at right-hand angle. Return wing to right and rear range (service ranges) are brick, also 2-storeyed with attic dormers. Various axial and end wall stacks. INTERIOR: retains much of original layout, arranged on a courtyard plan, with principal rooms overlooking garden, and full-height great hall behind clock tower. Much original detail also survives, including plaster ceilings, and fireplaces of principal rooms. Of the fireplaces, one has

monochromatic tiles illustrating crafts in the style of de Morgan, and another has heavy overmantel enriched with strapwork. The entrance hall and staircase were reinstated after serious fire damage in 1983, the stained glass in the stair window largely salvaged.

Listing NGR: SJ9662756293