Description

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SJ 97 NW
5/98

POTT SHRIGLEY C.P.
SHRIGLEY ROAD (North Side)
Shrigley Park
Shrigley Hall Hotel and Country Club

(Formerly listed as Salesian Missionary College, previously listed as Shrigley Hall)

25/7/1952

GV
II*
Former mansion now hotel and country club: C.1825 by Thomas Emett
Senior of Preston for Sir William Turner. Ashlar brown sandstone with
graded slate and partly felted roof. 2-storey, symmetrical, 11-bay
front, with end and 3 centre bays breaking slightly forward. Centre
has pediment and Ionic tetrastyle porch on 5 steps. Plinth band,
plain frieze and modillion cornice. Mid C20 attic storey but
balustrating over end bays is the remains of original treatment.
Windows, sashes with glazing bars in plain reveals, except end bays
which are tripartite with panelled pilasters and segmental tympana.
Doorway has carved architrave, 6-panelled door and ornamental
rectangular fanlight. Medallion in pediment, of lion and cross.
Rubble wings to rear, 3 storey to left and 2 storey to right, both
with 16-pane sashes and plain doorcases.
Interior: Hall. Entry through 2, 6-panelled oak doors, semi-circular
headed niches and doorways with moulded soffits to left and right.
Staircase removed and false ceiling hides Ionic capitals and ceiling
cornice, and cuts off upper dome. 3 bay room to right of hall has
original ceiling. Acanthus border, with large rectangular panel with
central band of swags. Cornucopiae and elegant tracery in corners and
central elliptical medallion of cornucopiae and acanthus. 3-bay room
to left of hall has 4, 6-panelled walnut doors with moulded panels and
raised fields. Running swag frieze, intertwined foliage soffit and
ovolo cornice. Ceiling cornice of acanthus and intertwined foliage.
Black and green-veined chimney breast on fluted circular columns.
Left end bay room: Twisted vine frieze below modillion cornice with
acanthus and vine motifs in circular central panel. End of room,
divided by wooden Corinthian pilasters, leads to 2-storey well behind,
under circular skylight, and containing Corinthian columns and
pilasters. It now contains the staircase. Dome has been converted
into a library. Entrance between composite order columns supporting a
foliate frieze. Vault contains twisted vine tracery on ropework
dividing moulded panels with a border of urns and tracery around
circular light. Plasterwork in vault, mid C19, may belong to rebuild
of vault implied by external masonry.

Listing NGR: SJ9426179805

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Shrigley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7503956

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)