Belmont Hall, Cheshire

Belmont Hall, Cheshire

Belmont Hall, Cheshire is a country house to the northwest of the village of Great Budworth, Cheshire, England (gbmapping|SJ654783). It is a Grade I listed building.cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=57568 |title=Images of England: Belmont Hall |accessdate=2008-04-09 |publisher=English Heritage ] The house is now occupied by a school, Cransley School. [cite web |url=http://www.cransleyschool.org.uk/ |title=Cransley School |accessdate=2008-04-10 |publisher=Cransley School ]

History and architecture

The house was built in 1755 to a design by James Gibbs, which was altered during its construction. It is built in brown brick and has a slate hipped roof. The entrance façade is symmetrical with seven bays and three storeys. It has a central three-bay pediment and two two-storey bay windows. The doorway also has a pediment. On each side of the house is a three-bay wing at right angles to the house. Each wing is joined to the house by a five-bay wall which includes a central pedimented archway. The rear of the house is plain. The interior has "quite sumptuous decoration" in Rococo style. [cite book | last =Pevsner | first =Nikolaus | authorlink =Nikolaus Pevsner | coauthors =Edward Hubbard | title =The Buildings of England: Cheshire |edition= | publisher =Yale University Press| date =2003| origyear=1971| location =New Haven & London| pages =228 | url = | doi = | id = | isbn =0 300 09588 0 ]

urrounding buildings and grounds

In the grounds is a five-sided moated island and a fishpond. This was part of a medieval monastic grange which was granted to Norton Priory by Geoffrey Dutton during the reign of Henry I. [cite web |url=http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/Growingschools/region/placestovisit/detail.cfm?id=1038&rid=3 |title= Belmont Hall |accessdate=2008-04-10 |publisher=Department for Children, Schools and Families ] The main lodge to the hall, [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=57567 |title=Images of England: Main Lodge to Belmont Hall |accessdate=2008-04-10 |publisher=English Heritage ] and the north lodge [cite web |url=http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/search/details.aspx?pid=1&id=57476 |title=Images of England: North Lodge to Belmont Hall |accessdate=2008-04-10 |publisher=English Heritage] are listed Grade II.

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