Demesne Hall

WOLSINGHAM RECTORY LANE NZ 0737 (North side) Wolsingham 39/389 Demesne Hall (formerly listed 31.1.67 as Rectory)

GV II

Rectory, now house. 1848 for Hon. John Grey, rector. Hammer-dressed sandstone ashlar with tooled margins; Welsh slate roof with ashlar and yellow brick chimneys. L-plan. Garden front has 2 storeys, 6 windows, those on ground floor in 3 bowed projections with eaves band and blocking course ; all windows sashes with fine glazing bars, flat stone sills and plain reveals. Stone- bracketed eaves support low-pitched hipped roof with ridge chimneys. Left return has long sash at garden end and central French window; right return blank to drive, with central renewed door in architrave with acanthus- bracketed cornice, and sashes to rear rooms. Right servants' wing set back, one storey and 2 windows under hipped roof with ridge chimney.

Interior: stucco cornice in entrance hall which runs right-to-left; central rear open-well stair with curved handrail. Moulded cornices, some egg-and-dart, in ground-floor rooms and some ceiling-roses in leafy patterns. Doors have 6 raised and fielded panels. Window shutters throughout. Some original marble chimney pieces, with pilasters and cornices, in ground-floor rooms. 5 cast-iron grates in first-floor rooms.

Listing NGR: NZ0743037380