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The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall

The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall, Derby Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1088345
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall
Statutory Address:: The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall, Derby Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1088345
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall
Statutory Address 1:: The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall, Derby Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall, Derby Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Swarkestone
National Grid Reference:: SK3746328648

Details

SK 32 NE 3/241

PARISH OF SWARKESTONE DERBY ROAD (south side) The Grandstand, Cuttle and gate 200 metres north of Swarkestone Hall

10.11.67

GV I Bowling green, pavilion and enclosure, now a Landmark Trust property. c1630, built for the Harpurs of Swarkestone Hall and attributed to John Smythson. Restored in early C19 and converted 1985.

Ashlar with rendered stone and raised quoins to side and rear elevations, plus first and second floor stringcourses. Towers have domed ogival leaded roofs with ball finials and coved eaves cornices, whilst centre bay has embattled parapets with ridgeback copings hiding a flat roof which has a very tall octagonal stone chimney, with moulded base and top, to centre of the rear wall.

The pavilion has three storey towers to either side of an advanced two storey centre and it stands to the north of an irregular rectangle of walls with a central gate to southern end. Pavilion has a continuous entablature-like band to first floor. The advanced centre bay has a loggia to ground floor with three depressed oqee headed arches on Tuscan columns with moulded hoods. To either side there are wide pilasters with central shield decorations to top with small drop motifs to each side. Above the columns and pilasters the entablature breaks forward on shield-like corbels, decorated with Harpur crests. Towers have moulded four-centre arched doorcases. Above to centre there is a six-light ovolo moulded mullion and transomed window with two major mullions and leaded lights. Each tower has a two-light cavetto moulded mullion and transomed window with continuous plain band at lintel level. Above, the towers have a two-light recessed and chamfered mullion window. Rear elevation has single light recessed and chamfered windows with dripmoulds to towers and a blank wall to centre bay except for a two-light basement window.

Interior has a moulded four-centred arched fireplace to first floor room and four-centred arched doorcases. Remains of unusual gypsum plaster survives on some walls. Attached to either side of the pavilion there are rubble stone walls with triangular sectioned ashlar copings.

Southern gateway has a moulded four-centred arch and coved cornice with embattled parapets over. Girouard suggest that this is the 'bowle alley house' for which the mason Richard Shephard was paid £111 12s 4d in 1630-2.

Listing NGR: SK3746328648

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 83227
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M, Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House, (1983)
Girouard, M, Robert Smythson, (1966)
'Country Life' in 3 October, (1963), 821
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.