Helmington Hall Including Adjacent Storage Building And Gateway

CROOK AND WILLINGTON HUNWICK LANE NZ 13 SE (East side)Hunwick 32/39 Helmington Hall 17/4/52 including adjacent storage building and gateway II

House, with storage building and gateway. Formerly dated 1686; additions and alterations c.1805; incorporates earlier fabric in adjoining building and gateway. Thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins; roof pantiled, with Welsh slate at eaves and at east end, with brick chimneys on house, rendered, and brick chimneys on adjacent building; stone gable copings. Double-pile house 2 storeys, 4 bays, the right gabled, and low one-storey, one-bay pent right extension; one-storey, 3-bay building at left; gateway at extreme left.

House has blocked door in third bay in bolection-moulded architrave under floating cornice; datestone removed; scrolled pediments over sash windows, those on ground floor of late C19 type in raised stone surrounds, those on first floor in first 3 bays with glazing bars; plain sash in gabled right bay, and smaller square window at right in gable peak. One-storey building at left has blocked door in right end with large irregular-block jambs; blocked windows in other bays separated by coped buttress with one offset. White brick chimneys on house; massive rendered stack between first and second bays of left building has offsets on brick copings; truncated left end chimney. Main house left return has Gothic treatment with Y-traceried window at left under gable string and parapet; small round opening in square stone surround at right in gable peak. Gateway at extreme left has high parapet over 4-centred arch flanked by buttresses; chamfered stone coping.

Interior: house has deeply-moulded stucco cornice in rear left room on first floor. Storage building has pigeon nest boxes of stone flags on brick supports in gable and rear wall of loft.

Listing NGR: NZ1881533425