Country house built between 1781-1787 in the Adam style. Alterations were carried out in the mid-19th century and 20th century. (5)
1787. Built for the Hon. Frederick Montague to the designs of an unrecorded front rank architect of the period. Capability Brown, Carr of York and the Adam Brothers have all been suggested as the architect concerned. Three storeys, ashlar, 1-1-1 windows, sashes, flanked by paired Ionic pilaster rising from above the ground floor. Rusticated ground floor. Central window with pediment over. Double bands between storeys. Plinth. Dentilled cornice and blocking course, Central C19 projecting porch of rusticated ashlar with round headed door, cornice and blocking course. Round headed windows in sides. The original door surround inside is a rusticated round headed apse. Side elevation of similar style, no pilasters, four sash windows.
Park front, 1-3-1 windows, the centre ones beneath a pediment. Ionic pilasters to upper floor. Rusticated roundheaded arches to lower floor. Double band between storeys. Outer ground floor windows with architraves and cornices. Full height rusticated corner pilasters. Central first floor windows with architraves and conices on brackets. Dentilled cornice. Blocking course and pediment. One storey wing added to left C20. Two storey wing adjoins on the left, probably earlier. Random fenestration includes two stone mullioned and transomed windows. Slates. Interior. Very fine with Adam style decoration throughout. Excellent hall with stone staircase with iron balustrade etc, drawing room and dining room with rich plasterwork and woodwork, library with fitted bookcases surmounted by busts etc. etc. A small sitting room has a relief of the Death of Caesar signed by Flaxman above the fireplace. The library has a patch of scorched floorboarding caused by Suffragettes during an attempt
to destroy the house by fire. Setting. Landscape park. at the foot of the park, beyond the church, is a stream running through a (partly artifical and eighteenth century) wilderness of trees etc. Here are placed urns to the memories of William Mason and Thomas Gray and a small classical temple. (6)
The owner [was] the Hon. Frederick Montagu (sic) … A slight clumsiness in proportion and handling suggests that the architect was a provincial one. The Adam-influenced design and finely detailed interiors are … characteristic of Carr's one-time assistant Lindley of Doncaster (cf. Serlby Hall). (1)
Named 'The Hall' (2).
The seat of the honourable Frederick Montague. Finished in the year 1787. (3)
Compared to the engraving in (3), the house appears externally unaltered. (4)

Listed Buildings Slides, 24 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

--/07/87, Chetwynd House stable block - proposed garage (Plan). SNT4502.

English Heritage, 1984, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England - Part 33, Notts (Published document). SNT4554.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 287-8 (Monograph). SNT4.

<1> Gedling Borough Council, 1991, Gedling's Heritage, 130 (Published document). SNT1552.

<2> Sanderson G, 1835, 20 miles around Mansfield - 2 in (Map). SNT48.

<3> Throsby J, 1790, Thoroton's History of Notts Vol 2, p 288 (Published document). SNT1346.

<4> White J, 2002, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1529.

<5> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.

<6> DOE (HHR), --/03/1960, Basford Rural District - Provisional List, p. 25 (Published document). SNT627.