Description

WIDMERPOOL WIDMERPOOL HALL SK 62 NW DRIVE (south side) 6/144 Widmerpool Hall II Country house now training college for the Automobile Association. 1872-3 by Henry Clutton for Major Roberts. Some C20 alterations. Ashlar. Plain tile roof. Several irregularly dispersed groups of ashlar stacks, some external, all set diagonally. Ashlar coped gables with single ridge finials. Single Italianate clock tower of 2 stages over the ridge. The top stage slightly projects over the band which is supported on mock machicolations. Topped with bands and a parapet decorated with open arched and cusped panels. Single corner finials and gargoyles. To the front and right at the first stage are single arched lights with single transoms under a flat arch with hood moulds and decorative label stops. The second stage has on each side a single rectangular panel formerly containing clock face now with single large roundel with single small roundels in the panelled spandrels. Hood mould and label stops over. Cornice to the left 5 bays, those not gabled with similar parapet to the tower. Irregular entrance front of 2 storeys plus attic, 2 storeys and single storey plus attic, 16 bays. The first, third and fifth single bays from the left are 2 storeys plus garret and gabled, the second and fourth left single bays are 2 storeys, the single bays sixth, seventh and eighth from the left are one and a half storeys, the nineth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth single bays from the left are single storey plus attic, the thirteenth single bay from the left is single storey plus garret and gabled, the remaining 3 bays are single storey. The first and second single bays and fourth and fifth single bays from the left slightly project and have single corner gargoyles. The right 4 bays project. The left 5 bays are set on a moulded plinth. The left 9 bays have a band over ground floor openings, broken by the porch and forming a hood mould over the window in the single bay sixth from the left. Ground floor sill band to the right 11 bays, broken by the doorways. First floor sill band to the left 5 bays, broken by the single left fifth bay. Having from left to right, 2 windows each with 4 arched lights and single transom, single similar 3 light window, gabled porch with moulded arched entrance with panelled spandrels each contaning single roundel. Hood mould over. The side walls each with single windows each with 2 arched lights and drip mould. Inner moulded arched doorway with panelled double door. Further right is a single window with 4 arched lights and drip mould, a single similar 2 light window and drip mould, a single similar single light window and drip mould, an arched doorway with part glazed door spandrels as porch and drip mould, a single similar 2 light window and drip mould, a C20 doorway and door, 2 similar 4 light windows and drip moulds, a single window with 4 arched lights and single transom, hood mould and label stops and on the far right 3 small fixed lights. Above from left to right are 4 windows each with 4 arched lights and single transom, a single similar larger window with 2 transoms and stained glass, a single window with 3 arched lights, 3 gabled dormers each with single window with 3 arched lights and single transom and a single slit ventilator. Above are 3 windows each with 3 arched lights and drip mould. To the left of the tower base is a single small 3 light window. All windows are ashlar casements. Irregular garden front, the right 5 bays being 2 storeys plus attic and the left 4 bays single storey plus attic. Bands with plinth to the right bays. The right 5 bays alternate 2 single bays with 3 two storey single canted bays, being gabled over. The single left bay is gabled. The second, third and fourth single bays from the left with gabled dormers. All windows with arched ashlar casements some with transoms. Interior has an open well staircase with tapering fluted balusters. Some oak panelling.

Listing NGR: SK6289428403

External Links

• Widmerpool Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7998748

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