Building record 14909 - Norcliffe Hall, Styal

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1222267 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Large house, 1831 for Robert Hyde Greg. Flemish bond orange brick, pink sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys with octagonal stacks. Elizabethan style. Irregular plan. 2½-storey, 4-bay south front. Stone plinth, quoins, copings and corbelled out finials. The windows are a mixture of 2 and 3-light stone mullioned or mullioned and transomed, some with lozenge glazing bars and a canted 2-storey stone bay window in 3rd bay. Stone string below blocking course with loopholes and gabled dormers. Porch in east front has Greg arms above door. In north side is a 4-stage lookout tower with 2-light round headed windows under label moulds, corbelled turrets in each corner and a lead cupola roof. Interior: Hall has wainscotting with diamond shaped panels. Panelled ceiling with plastered beams and heraldic bosses. Room to right has panelled ceilings with RHG monograms. Stairwell has arcade of 3, 4-centred arches, a turned column oak stair with square newels. Greg arms motto and monograms in stained glass. Drawing and dining room also with panelled ceilings and heavy oak doorcases and doors throughout.