Listed Building: CALVELEY HALL (1278640)

SJ 45 NE HANDLEY C.P. CHAPEL LANE 5/68 Calveley Hall. 22/10/1952 GV II* Hall: 1684 for Lady Mary Calveley, remodelled 1818 for Sir Thomas Legh of Lyme, some C20 alterations. Rendered brick with stone quoins and plinth. Hipped Welsh slate roof and 2 brick chimneys. 3-storey, symmetrical, 7-bay front (1:2:1:2:1). End bays are set back and have 12-pane sashes (1 altered to patio window). Central 5-bays form main block. Flush 12-pane sashes in plain reveals. High solid parapet with sunken panels over the windows. Doorcase has reeded columns with semi-circular fanlight with radial glazing bars and a 6-panelled door. To rear C17 brickwork visible with a slighted band and cornice. Interior: Entrance lobby (probably taken out of left hand room which has no C17 features) leads at back to excellent broad stair with a shallow flight, square landing and second flight to left. Double spiral newels with Baroque fruitbowl finials have Calveley arms to the front. Double spiral balusters and heavily moulded handrail with a frieze of interwining roses and boughs of fruit. Room to right has painted bolection moulded panelling throughout, similar doors with H-hinges and a simple contemporary plaster ceiling. Main 3-bay room upstairs has similar unpainted panelling throughout and good overmantel with arms of Sir Hugh Calveley, carved lily leaves around the bolection, hanging garlands of fruit and foliage to the sides and carved acanthus in the pulvinated frieze. Contemporary doors. Room beyond, only has a panelled dado and a frieze with panels for tapestries, now removed. Listing NGR: SJ4544158575