Stanton Hall, Stanton in Peak
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Stanton in Peak
Stanton-in-Peak is a village in the Peak District, Derbyshire, It is about seven miles north-west of Matlock, on the north side of Stanton Moor, from Birchover. There is a fine 19th century Parish Church, and many fine stone houses, with mullion windows...
in the Derbyshire
Derbyshire
Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...
Peak District
Peak District
The Peak District is an upland area in central and northern England, lying mainly in northern Derbyshire, but also covering parts of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, and South and West Yorkshire....
, the home of the Davie-Thornhill family. It is a Grade II* listed building.
The manor of Stanton was owned for some two centuries by the Bache family, but passed to Thornhill by the 1696 marriage of Mary Pegge, heiress of the estate, to John Thornhill of Thornhill. The Thornhill family and their direct descendants are still in residence.
The house has three principal building phases. The oldest part dates from the replacement of the medieval manor house
Manor house
A manor house is a country house that historically formed the administrative centre of a manor, the lowest unit of territorial organisation in the feudal system in Europe. The term is applied to country houses that belonged to the gentry and other grand stately homes...
in 1693. Only one single gabled bay at the north of the house now remains of this period. In the 17th century the 1693 house was largely replaced with a two storey mansion with a seven bayed east front. In 1799/1800 Bache Thornhill, (High Sheriff of Derbyshire
High Sheriff of Derbyshire
This is a list of High Sheriffs of Derbyshire from 1568.The High Sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown. Formerly the High Sheriff was the principal law enforcement officer in the county but over the centuries most of the responsibilities associated with the post have been...
in 1776) added a substantial southern facing extension, doubling the size of the house. The new two storey five by five bay addition was designed in a Palladian style by architect Lindley of Doncaster. The entrance front to the south has the three central bays projecting, with a semicircular Doric
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...
porch with balcony over, and all covered by a pediment.
Bache Thornhill also created a deer park on the estate and ornamental gardens. His descendant William Pole Thornhill
William Pole Thornhill
William Pole Thornhill was a British Whig and then Liberal Party politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1853 to 1865....
, High Sheriff 1836, died in 1876 and the estate passed to McCreagh-Thornhill relations. In the 1950s it passed to the Davie-Thornhill family.