Tissington Hall
| Tissington Hall | |
| Derbyshire | |
|---|---|
 Tissington Hall | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SK17475235 |
| Location: | 53°4’5"N, 1°44’26"W |
| Village: | Tissington |
| History | |
| Built 1609 | |
| Country house | |
| Information | |
| Owned by: | Sir Richard FitzHerbert, Bt |
| Website: | www.tissington-hall.com |
Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, in the west of Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.[1]
History
The FitzHerberts, descended from the Norman family of Norbury Hall, acquired Tissington by the marriage of Nicholas FitzHerbert (the second son of John FitzHerbert of Somersal Herbert) to Ciceley Frauncis, heiress of Tissington, in 1465.
The old moated manor at Tissington was replaced with the new mansion in 1609 by Francis FitzHerbert and remains the home of the FitzHerbert family.[2]
Structure
It is the hall that makes Tissington Hall unusual. It is one of a small group of compact Derbyshire gentry houses in which a central hall runs through the house from front to back.[3] Nicholas Cooper surmises that the unusual, progressive character may be due to the influence of lodges (he counted some fifty emparked estates in Saxton's map of the shire, of 1570) and the grand example of a through-hall at Hardwick.
Behind a two-storey enclosed entrance porch (illustration, right), the hall is entered at the centre of one end. On the left are two parlours separated by a stairhall, on the right a kitchen and buttery]]. Corner towers on the garden front, now linked by the additional upper floor above the gallery range, provide further rooms.
A Rococo Gothick fireplace in the house follows a published design by Batty Langley.[4]
The Hall is open to the public at specified times of the year and is available for commercial and private functions.[5]
The Hall is Grade II* listed.[1]The garden terraces and walls,[6] stable block,[7] staff quarters and outbuildings,[8] and entrance gates[9] are separately listed, all at Grade II.
See also
Outside links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 National Heritage List 1335283: Tissington Hall (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ Nicholas Cooper, Houses of the Gentry 1480–1680 (Yale University Press) 1999:196-98.
- ↑ This aspect of Tissington's plan is obscured by the transverse gallery with a central oriel that was added to the garden front in the eighteenth century.
- ↑ Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840, 3rd ed. (Yale University Press) 1995, s.v. "Batty Langley".
- ↑ "Tissington Hall". http://www.tissingtonhallweddings.co.uk/index.html.
- ↑ National Heritage List 1109274: Garden terraces, walls and piers at Tissington Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1109275: Stableblock to Tissington Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1335284: Staff quarters and outbuilding at Tissington Hall (Grade II listing)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1109273: Gate Piers, walls and entrance gateway and gates to Hall (Grade II listing)
- Jackson-Stops, Jervase: 'Tissington Hall, Derbyshire': Country Life 160 (1976), pp. 158–61; 2114–17; 286–89
