Named 'Debdale'. (1)

Debdale Hall, with an early Georgian core but mostly early C19th in appearance. (2)

Country house … c.1730 and c.1830. (3)

The hall was designed in two main phases with associated gardens, plantations and shrubberies and a small parkland lawn to the east; the first phase contained a triangular pedimented roughly square plan building dating from circa 1730-50, overlooking the parkland lawn to the north-east. There are no indications that this house had an outlook that was designed to face south beyond the immediate gardens although there is sloping lawn / open space shown on the Tithe map between the hall and the road, which may have enabled a glimpse of the hall from the road (although there is a steep change in gradient). (4)

The hall was designed to be discovered following a long carriage drive and is largely secluded within its private gardens, as designed. It seems likely that much of the road was excavated out from the local bedrock, perhaps in association with localised quarrying. The landscaping was positively enhanced to remove all sense of the road from the main approach to the hall, which was via a pair of sloping carriage drives at either end of the grounds. The approach to the Hall from the west, was through open countryside, and framed by small quarries and ancillary buildings which may have been established at around the time that the road was constructed through the valley. (4)

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

<1> Sanderson G, 1835, 20 miles around Mansfield - 2 in (Map). SNT48.

<2> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p.175 (Monograph). SNT4.

<3> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<4> Melanie Morris, 2018, Heritage Impact Assessment, HELAA - Preferred Options 2013-2033: Site allocations Mansfield District Local Plan 2018 (Unpublished document). SNT5792.