Listed Building: HENBURY HALL (1139299)

10 May 2024 09:37 SJ 87 SE 7/26 HENBURY C.P. HENBURY PARK Henbury Hall 25 7 52 GV II Stable block, now small country house. Late C17, altered. Rendered and painted brick with stone dressings and slate roof with wood and lead clock cupola. Two storeys. Entrance front: 9 bays in A.B.B.B.C.B.B.B.A. rhythm. Stone pilasters to corners and either side of central bay and paired between first and second and eighth and ninth bays all having moulded bases and capitals. Central 2 storey archway in slightly projecting gabled bay. Exposed keystone, stone voussoirs and springers. Three bays of 3-light chamfered windows with mullions and transoms to either side with oval pitchholes to first floor with exposed stone surrounds. Left hand bay has half-glazed door imposed on three-light window with 3-light first floor window without transom. Three-light ground and first floor windows to right hand end bay. The central archway and pitchholes are now glazed. Octagonal cupola to roof with round clock faces and semi-circular arched louvres alternating. Octagonal dome over supporting bellcote with arched openings, again domed and carrying a gilded ball and weather vane. Courtyard front: Red Flemish bond brick. Brick band between floors. Central arch as before with stone quoins, voussoirs and keystone although not in projecting bay and with 3-light first floor window above. To right of this are 4 bays in similar rhythm to those on the entrance front but having first floor windows of 3 transomed lights. Six bays to left hand side having alternating three and two-light windows to first floor and two doors to ground floor with porches supported on brackets and three and two-light ground floor windows between. Listing NGR: SJ8696072980