Belmont Hall, Cheshire

Belmont Hall
Location in Cheshire
OS grid reference: SJ 654 783
Built: 1755
Built for: John Smith Barry
Architect: James Gibbs
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated: 4 March 1969
Reference #: 57568

Belmont Hall, Cheshire, is a country house to the northwest of the village of Great Budworth, Cheshire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.[1] The house stands to the north of the A559 road.[2] It is now partly occupied by Cransley School.[3]

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History and architecture

The house was built in 1755, to a design by James Gibbs, although altered during construction. It is built in brown brick and has a slate hipped roof.[1] The entrance façade is symmetrical with seven bays and three storeys. It has a central three-bay pediment and two two-storey bay windows. The doorway also has a pediment. On each side of the house is a three-bay wing at right angles to the house. Each wing is joined to the house by a five-bay wall which includes a central pedimented archway. The rear of the house is plain. The interior has "quite sumptuous and exceptionally delicate plaster decoration in the Rococo mode".[4]

It has been in the continual ownership of the Leigh family for the past 200 years. The house is let to the school, and the grounds include a Camping and Caravanning Club registered site.[5]

Surrounding buildings and grounds

In the grounds are a moat, a fishpond, kitchen garden and formal lawns. The moated site and the fishpond have been designated as a scheduled monument.[6] The main lodge to the hall,[7] and the north lodge[8] are listed Grade II.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Belmont Hall", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1139129, retrieved 26 April 2011 
  2. ^ Great Budworth, Streetmap, http://streetmap.co.uk/grid/365363_378395_120, retrieved 16 February 2011 
  3. ^ Cransley School, Cransley School, http://www.cransleyschool.org.uk/, retrieved 10 April 2008 
  4. ^ Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 378–379, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 
  5. ^ Welcome, Belmont Hall, http://www.belmonthallcheshire.co.uk/index.html, retrieved 15 June 2011 
  6. ^ "Belmont moated site and fishpond", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1018593, retrieved 26 April 2011 
  7. ^ "Main Lodge to Belmont Hall", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1087026, retrieved 26 April 2011 
  8. ^ "North Lodge to Belmont Hall", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1320304, retrieved 26 April 2011