Description

SJ 88 SW WILMSLOW FORMER U.D. ALTRINCHAM ROAD (South Side) Styal

1/266 Norcliffe Hall

6/3/1975

GV II

Large house, 1831 for Robert Hyde Greg. Flemish bond orange brick, pink sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys with octagonal stacks. Elizabethan style. Irregular plan. 2½-storey, 4-bay south front. Stone plinth, quoins, copings and corbelled out finials. The windows are a mixture of 2 and 3-light stone mullioned or mullioned and transomed, some with lozenge glazing bars and a canted 2-storey stone bay window in 3rd bay. Stone string below blocking course with loopholes and gabled dormers. Porch in east front has Greg arms above door. In north side is a 4-stage lookout tower with 2-light round headed windows under label moulds, corbelled turrets in each corner and a lead cupola roof. Interior: Hall has wainscotting with diamond shaped panels. Panelled ceiling with plastered beams and heraldic bosses. Room to right has panelled ceilings with RHG monograms. Stairwell has arcade of 3, 4-centred arches, a turned column oak stair with square newels. Greg arms motto and monograms in stained glass. Drawing and dining room also with panelled ceilings and heavy oak doorcases and doors throughout.

Listing NGR: SJ8289883501

External Links

• Norcliffe Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7050482

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]