Baslow Hall

PARISH OF BASLOW & BUBNELL CALVER ROAD SK 27 SE 3/12 (East Side) Baslow Hall II Small country house. 1907 possibly by Weightman & Hadfield. C17 vernacular style. Coursed squared sandstone and ashlar. Stone slate roof and coped gables with plain kneelers. Ridge stack, two lateral stacks, and one rising from the pitch of the roof. Moulded bands above and below the first floor windows. Moulded eaves cornice. Two storeys. South elevation of half-H plan with projecting gabled wings. Flight of three semi- circular stone steps up to projecting central doorway which has a hollow moulded surround and fleurons and a halfdomed hood on moulded brackets. Moulded keystone. Pair of panelled doors. Flanked by 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. First floor has a window of two tiers, the upper breaking through the eaves with a coped parapet. The lower is of 3-2-3 lights, the upper of 2-2-2 lights. The centre two of both are blind. The return walls have a single light transomed window to ground floor. The matching gabled wings have to each floor a mullioned and transomed window of 1-3-1 lights. Sunk roundels bearing crests, set in the gables. The side elevation includes a staircase window which is basically of 4-lights with two transoms, but the lower transom is broken across the centre two lights by a round-arch. Interior in rich Jacobean Style. Entrance hall has beams on moulded corbels, four-centred arched chimneypiece and a pair of 'art nouveau' looking tripartite screens with stained glass. The dining room has a Jacobean style plaster ceiling and the drawing room a more delicate plaster ceiling and an early C18 style chimneypiece. Staircase hall has closed string staircase with heavy turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SK2506072878