Hassop Hall

Hassop Hall is a country house, now operating as a hotel, with origins in the 17th century, significantly altered in the early 18th century and again between 1827 and 1833. The house is constructed of coursed squared limestone with sandstone dressings and quoins, and sandstone ashlar. It has hipped roofs covered with Welsh slate and various ashlar stacks.

The principal south elevation was remodelled between 1827 and 1833 and displays a symmetrical seven-bay facade. It features ashlar detailing with plain first and second-floor bands and intermediate sill bands, a moulded cornice, and a partly balustraded parapet. The central doorway is framed by a Tuscan Doric pedimented doorcase with a pair of half-glazed doors. Above the door is a glazing bar sash window with a moulded architrave and a segmental pediment, which is itself surmounted by a circular window with a decorative hood mould shaped like a garland. Flanking the central bay are full-height canted bays, each floor containing three glazing bar sash windows. Bays two and six have a half-domed niche on the ground floor, a glazing bar sash above, and a circular window with a moulded surround above again.

The west elevation, six bays wide, incorporates a return elevation to the main south front, with ashlar facing, first and second-floor bands, and sill bands, all adorned with two glazing bar sashes on each floor. A Tuscan Doric porch shelters the ground-floor entrance of the third bay. The section above the porch is stepped back and built of coursed limestone, featuring glazing bar sash windows with keyed raised ashlar surrounds on each floor. The three bays to the left are now single-storied and stepped back, displaying angle quoins and glazing bar sashes in ashlar surrounds.

The east elevation has four bays; three are rendered, with glazing bar sashes and blind windows. An ashlar parapet is decorated with arched crenellations. The north elevation retains early 18th-century fenestration, including glazing bar sash windows in keyed ashlar surrounds and a round-arched staircase window.

The interior has been substantially altered in the 20th century, with the incorporation of various 18th-century features. Surviving original features mostly date from the early 19th century. The Morning Room and Drawing Room contain carved marble chimneypieces created by White Watson of Ashford-in-the-Water. The Morning Room doorways have broken pediments to their architraves. Late Georgian style joinery and plasterwork is found within the Drawing Room. Bedroom No. 25 features an early 16th-century plaster overmantel, decorated with pilasters and the eyre Coat of Arms. An adjoining bathroom contains a blocked 16th-century three-light mullioned and transomed window. The Green Sitting Room showcases a marble Tuscan columned chimneypiece with inset coloured marbles.