Listed Building: MOTTRAM HALL HOTEL (1234766)

SJ 87 NE MOTTRAM ST.ANDREW C.P. WILMSLOW ROAD (North Side) 5/94 Mottram Hall Hotel (formerly listed as Mottram New Hall) 25/7/1952 II* Large hous'e:"c,1750 built by William Wright for his son, interior alterations of c,l780'and restoration dated 1939. Additions and adaptations to hotel c.1975. Flemish bond orange brick with buff sandstone dressings. Hipped Kerridge stone-slate roof and 9 brick chimneys. Long facade with projecting end pavilions. 2-storey symmetrical 17-bay front (3:3:5:3:3). Central 5 bays are the original house. Rusticated plinth supports giant order Doric pilasters with a triglyph frieze with rosettes. Triangular pediment contains a blank Rococo cartouche and the legend "NISI DOMINUS EDIFICE DOMUM FRUSTRA LABORATUR" adapted from psalm 117. Central doorcase with recessed panels on the jambs has a segmental pediment on consoles with floral swags in the tympanum. It now contains a glazed door. Above is a 12-pane sash in an eared architrave. Similar windows in the remainder have flat gauged and rubbed heads with stone keyblocks and sills. Flanking 3 bays on ashlar plinth have Gibbsian surrounds to door and window in central bay that steps forward slightly under a triangular pediment. Similar central bays to end pavilion, which step forward 5 bays, but surrounds have chamfered rustication. Rear pediment of central block carries inscription "RURA MIIH PLACEANT" (Sic). There are large C20 extensions to the end pavilions. Interior: Former entrance hall has a good Adam-style ceiling with a delicate cornice, border of rosettes, central circular panel bordered by a running vine with a fluted roundel at the middle. Carved softwood dado rail, skirting and door architrave with dot diamond motifs and lines of husks. Good mahogany 6-panelled doors. Room to left has lost ceiling but similar softwood carving based on fluting. White marble fireplace has centrepiece of an urn with swags of husks. Central passage has a long plaster groin vault with fan lunettes in the side and other Adam motifs. Oak-well staircase has square iron balusters, mahogany handrail, carved open string with raised roundels above a band of fluting. Bressumers have urns in relief and elliptical medallions. Stairwell lit by semi-circular headed window with tracery in the tympanum. The ceiling is heavier with swags of husks in the frieze, a ropework border and a central panel of acanthus leaves. Garden rooms have eared architraves to doors and long windows and mid C19 copies of the style of the ceiling in the stairwell. The modern lobby has an oak panelled dado of early C18 style. The fireplace is flanked by fluted wooden pillars carrying ursn, acanthus border to fire opening with roundels in the frieze above. Fluted wooden pilasters in the openings to the adjoining rooms. The full history of the house is uncertain and there is a simple plan to the central block with direct entry to a room. This and the style of the wings compares to Milnesbridge Hall, Huddersfield of c.1749 by Paine or T Atkinson. The ceilings in the style of Adam are of good quality although those in the garden rooms are a later pastiche. Listing NGR: SJ8854579402