Greystone Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Manor house.
Greystone Hall
- WRENN ID
- gilded-ember-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greystone Hall is a manor house dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, consisting of two sections with late 20th-century additions at the rear. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a pantiled roof with a double course of sandstone flags at the eaves and stone stacks. The building is two stories high, with a two-bay right section that is slightly shorter and a taller, three-bay section attached to the left.
The right section has roughly-dressed quoins on the right side. It features a part-glazed six-panel door with chamfered jambs beneath a hoodmould, and to the right, there is a three-light flat-faced mullioned window with six-pane lights and a central opening casement. The first floor has a similar two-light window and a three-light window to the right. The roof is steeply pitched with slightly-swept eaves and has a corniced right gable stack. The right gable end has been rebuilt.
The left section has a low plinth and alternate quoins on the left. Its windows have chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds, including a central two-light window with fixed six-pane lights and flanking three-light windows with central opening casements. The first floor features identical fenestration. The roof is also steeply pitched with slightly-swept eaves, and it has a stepped and corniced left gable stack, along with a rebuilt right gable stack. A round window in a chamfered surround is set high in the left gable end. The rear of the house includes a central two-storey stair wing with a tumbled-in brick gable.
Inside, there is a three-flight closed-well stone stair leading to the rear. The living room features a cambered bressumer, four transverse chamfered ceiling beams, and some original joists. In the left section, a pair of upper crucks are partially exposed in the front bedroom. The right section contains three principal-rafter trusses with upper and lower collars, along with some re-used original timber. The late 20th-century additions at the rear and the detached farm buildings are not of special interest.
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