Tissington Hall

Tissington Hall is a house, originally dating from the early 17th century (traditionally 1609), with substantial alterations around 1750 and an extension in 1906 by Arnold Mitchell. It is constructed of rubble limestone with sandstone dressings, and features stone stacks. The main block of around 1609 was refaced in the 18th century. A library wing was added to the north in 1906. The house is two and three storeys high.

The east elevation of the main block has five bays. It includes first and second floor stringcourses and a parapet. A central projecting porch has a round-arched doorway and a four-light mullioned and transomed window above, with a major mullion creating the appearance of two cross-windows. Flanking the porch are windows to each floor, and further bays are set back to the south-west and north-west, linking with the 1906 block. The 1906 block is two storeys high, with a four-bay east elevation featuring two full-height canted bay windows and two- and four-light mullioned windows. This represents a remodelling and encasing of a previous detached building.

The west elevation’s central six bays were remodelled around 1750, displaying three storeys with a parapet, four string bands, and a central two-floor canted bay. An open arcade runs along the ground floor, featuring round arches with keystones and raised stone surrounds, topped by seven glazing-bar sashes in moulded stone surrounds. Further glazing-bar sashes are above, and a library wing projects to the north-west with a full-height canted bay window. The fenestration forms an eleven-light window with two transoms on the ground floor, and an eleven-light mullion window above. An entrance hall runs from front to back, following a design similar to that at Hardwick Hall. The interior contains early 17th-century panelling with intersecting arches, a “Gothick” chimneypiece, a plaster frieze and cornice dated 1757, and numerous other panelled rooms, with panelling primarily dating to the 1620s. Several early 18th-century chimneypieces are also present, along with a 17th-century dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and tall turned finials.