Description

TL 26SE PAPWORTH EVERARD ERMINE STREET
(North Side)

8/93 Papworth Hall
31.8.62

II*

Large Country House, 1809-1813 by George Byfield (1756 - 1813),
for Charles Madryll Cheere (d.1825), altered in 1860-96 by E.T.
Hooley. Stuccoed brick with moulded stone and limestone
dressings. Low pitched hipped slated roofs; two symmetrical
stacks and rear stacks. West main entrance facade of five
'bays'. Plinth; shallow parapet with deep cornice. Pedimented
portico with four giant unfluted Ionic columns. Double,
three-panelled doors with patterned cast iron glazing bars and
projecting lantern, flanked by two recessed twelve-paned hung
sash windows and with three similar first floor windows. Ground
floor windows in outer 'bays' of three hung sash lights
pedimented in blind segmental arches; two twelve-paned first
floor hung sash windows with moulded stone architraves. South
elevation of seven 'bays' with three centre 'bays' pedimented
and slightly projecting; semi circular Roman Doric porch with
cast iron railings to balcony with access from first floor
window. East elevation with recessed Ionic portico. Interior.
Large entrance hall floored with grey marble with Ionic
pilasters and columns in red scagliola; similar yellow scagliola
columns to east ante room of Corinthian order. Stone staircase
with cast iron balustrade enriched with leaf patterns. Charles
Madryll, married to John Cheere's daughter, adopted the family
name when inheriting the estate. E.T. Hooley, a financier, is
reputed to have spent £150,000 improving the estate and became
bankrupt in 1909. The Hall became a T.B. hospital in 1924 when
Sir Pendrill Darrier-Jones founded an experimental T.B. recovery
colony.
R.C.H.M. West Cambs mon.2, p.197
Pevsner. Buildings of England, p.448
Parker, R. History of Papworth Everard 198
Colvin. p.115

Listing NGR: TL2866762824

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550640

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