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Hardwick New Hall

Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House

There are major building remains

Name	Hardwick New Hall
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Derbyshire
Modern Authority	Derbyshire
1974 Authority	Derbyshire
Civil Parish	Ault Hucknall

Walls and lodges enclosing the gardens in two rectangular enclosures. 1590-97 probably by Robert Smythson. Sandstone ashlar. Chamfered copings surmounted by unusual finials forming a kind of crenellation. Polygonal lodge to the west and triangular bastion-like banqueting house. The entrance has a chamfered round-arch and square tower-like central section. Polygonal finials and elaborate strapwork cresting. (Listed Building Report)

The high stone wall that defines the court to Hardwick New Hall in Derbyshire is punctuated by beaked towers and crowned by curious obelisk and strapwork projections, a fashionable alternative to battlements. The idea at Hardwick may in fact be lifted from the towered gatehouse set in the main facade of Chatsworth, built by Bess and her first husband, Sir William Cavendish, from 1549. (Goodall, p. 459)

Gatehouse Comments

Since the Old Hall was in use as ancillary accommodation to the New Hall and is outside the boundary wall the man function of that wall was to define high status social space. However, this can also be said of a great number of crenellated precinct walls of earlier medieval buildings which are very often described as 'fortifications'.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number

Historic England Listed Building number(s)

1051617
1108997

Images Of England

79179

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)

316068

County Historic Environment Record

www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MDR6065&resourceID=1023

OS Map Grid Reference	SK462637
Latitude	53.1689109802246
Longitude	-1.30992996692657
Eastings	446229
Northings	363746