Tissington Hall

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{{Infobox historic site

| name = Tissington Hall

| architecture = Jacobean architecture

| locmapin = Derbyshire

| location = Tissington, England

| image = Tissington Hall - geograph.org.uk - 2542127.jpg

| built = 1609

| owner = Sir Richard FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet

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| designation1 = Grade II* Listed Building

| designation1_offname = Tissington Hall

| designation1_date = 5 February 1952

| designation1_number = {{NHLE|num=1335283|short=y|postscript=none}}

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Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

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. The current occupant is Sir Richard FitzHerbert, 9th Baronet. Both Francis FitzHerbert and his son (Sir) John served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire, a post that circulated among the county families.Nicholas Cooper, Houses of the Gentry 1480–1680 (Yale University Press) 1999:196-98.

Tissington Hall is often noted for being unusual for its more progressive design aspects. It is one of a small groupCooper 1999:198 notes the similar plans at Park Hall, Barlborough, and at Weston Hall, Weston-on-Trent. of compact Derbyshire gentry houses in which a central hall runs through the house from front to back.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. the unusual, progressive character may be due to the influence of lodges (Nicholas Cooper 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, 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 gothic fireplace in the house follows a published design by Batty Langley.{{cite book |first=Howard |last=Colvin |author-link=Howard Colvin |title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840 |edition=3rd |publisher=Yale University Press |date=1995 |at=s.v. "Batty Langley"}}

The Hall is open to the public at specified times of the year and is available for commercial and private functions.{{cite web |url=http://www.tissingtonhallweddings.co.uk/index.html |title=Tissington Hall |access-date=16 June 2016}}

The Hall is Grade II* listed, the second-highest designation.{{National Heritage List for England| num=1335283 |desc=Tissington Hall |grade=II* |accessdate=16 June 2016}} The garden terraces and walls,{{National Heritage List for England| num=1109274 |desc=Garden terraces, walls and piers at Tissington Hall |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |accessdate=16 June 2016}} stable block,{{National Heritage List for England| num=1109275 |desc=Stableblock to Tissington Hall |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |accessdate=16 June 2016}} staff quarters and outbuildings,{{National Heritage List for England| num=1335284 |desc=Staff quarters and outbuilding at Tissington Hall |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |accessdate=16 June 2016}} and entrance gates{{National Heritage List for England| num=1109273 |desc=Gate Piers, walls and entrance gateway and gates to Hall |grade=II |fewer-links=yes |accessdate=16 June 2016}} are separately listed, all at Grade II.

Tissington Hall2.jpg|Tissington Hall

Tissington Hall - geograph.org.uk - 205730.jpg|Tissington Hall: the stable block is on the left