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© Mr J M Pickering
IoE Number:
57948
Location:
BELGRADE HOTEL, JACKSON LANE (west side)
BOLLINGTON, MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE
Photographer:
Mr J M Pickering
Date Photographed:
17 April 2007
Date listed:
09 December 1983
Date of last amendment:
09 December 1983
Grade
II
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SJ 97 NW BOLLINGTON JACKSON LANE
(West Side)
2/31 Belgrade Hotel.
II
Formerly Hollin Hall, now a hotel: c1870 for Joseph Brook jnr.
Rock-faced brown sandstone with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof
with 4 chimneys with clusters of octagonal stacks. Mixture of Tudor
and Jacobean styles. 2-storey, 4-bay front. Left end bay is a
4-stage, octagonal castellated tower with blind lancet arcading and
loopholes below the castellation. Right end bay has 2-storey canted
bay windows with castellated top. The 3rd bay projects with a
4-centred arched doorcase with carving in the spandrels and on the
imposts and a blundered crest above. Upper storey has a castellated
canted oriel window with a triangular-headed light under a hood mould
in a shaped gable above. Remaining bay has sashes without glazing
bars. Pierced blocking course on eaves and shaped gable at either
end.
Interior: Ornate entrance hall with a screen of 3 pointed arches on
octagonal marble piers with gilded plaster work on the capitals and in
the spandrels. Tudor grey stone fireplace to left. Massive imperial
staircase with twisted balusters and carved newels. Lit by glazed
vault with 8 ribs sprung from a square base with a heavily moulded and
carved frieze. Mosaic panel in stairwell and elsewhere in building
are C20 additions. Room to right of hall has Adam-style dado and
frieze, a heavy cornice and a central pendant. Also a black marble
fireplace. Room to left of hall has similar ceiling. Remainder of
the house is unexceptional.
C20 one and 2-storey additions to the side and rear of original house
not of special interest.