Description

SJ 45 NE HANDLEY C.P. CHAPEL LANE

5/68 Calveley Hall.

22/10/1952

GV II*

Hall: 1684 for Lady Mary Calveley, remodelled 1818 for Sir Thomas
Legh of Lyme, some C20 alterations. Rendered brick with stone quoins
and plinth. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. 3-storey,
symmetrical, 7-bay front (1:2:1:2:1). End bays are set back and have
12-pane sashes (1 altered to patio window). Central 5-bays form main
block. Flush 12-pane sashes in plain reveals. High solid parapet
with sunken panels over the windows. Doorcase has reeded columns with
semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing bars and a 6-panelled door.
To rear C17 brickwork visible with a slighted band and cornice.
Interior: Entrance lobby (probably taken out of left hand room which
has no C17 features) leads at back to excellent broad stair with a
shallow flight, square landing and second flight to left. Double
spiral newels with Baroque fruitbowl finials have Calveley arms to the
front. Double spiral balusters and heavily moulded handrail with a
frieze of interwining roses and boughs of fruit. Room to right has
painted bolection moulded panelling throughout, similar doors with
H-hinges and a simple contemporary plaster ceiling. Main 3-bay room
upstairs has similar unpainted panelling throughout and good
overmantel with arms of Sir Hugh Calveley, carved lily leaves around
the bolection, hanging garlands of fruit and foliage to the sides and
carved acanthus in the pulvinated frieze. Contemporary doors. Room
beyond, only has a panelled dado and a frieze with panels for
tapestries, now removed.

Listing NGR: SJ4544158575

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Calveley Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5024225

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)