Eggleston Hall

Eggleston Hall is a house, now a private residential school, built in 1827 by I. Bonomi for T. Hutchinson, incorporating parts of an earlier house. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a plinth, while the older rear wing features sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof is made of small graduated Lakeland slates. The building has an irregular plan, with a main range that includes long returns and a set-back right wing.

The main range is two storeys high and has four bays, while the right wing has two lower storeys and five bays. The main block is symmetrical, with projecting end bays connected by a tetrastyle fluted Doric colonnade and an entablature featuring a triglyph frieze. The central entrance has a double panelled door that is partly glazed, flanked by aproned sashes with glazing bars. The ground floor of the end bays has similar windows, while the first-floor sashes also have glazing bars and projecting stone sills. The building features a top string, cornice, and blocking course. Most windows in the right wing are sashes with glazing bars, with the first and fifth bays being wider. The low-pitched hipped roofs have corniced ridge chimneys. The rear range of the courtyard includes a gabled two-storey, two-bay section with a blocked oeuil de boeuf above blocked doors that have wooden lintels on both floors.

Inside, there is a rear open-well stair with a moulded rail on a brass balustrade and moulded wood steps. The hall screen features two ground-floor Ionic columns and two first-floor Corinthian columns, with a Greek key fret at the first-floor sill level and a large sash window. The ceiling has a stucco rinceau frieze. Stucco cornices are present in the principal ground-floor rooms, featuring a Greek key pattern in the entrance hall and former morning room (now subdivided), oak, vine, and strawberry trails in the dining room, and floral designs in the sitting room. The doors are six-panel with fluted doorcases that have acanthus flowers on the corner blocks. The older part of the rear wing has a deeply-bowed chamfered tie beam visible in the upper room.