The Old Hall

HURWORTH THE GREEN NZ 3010 (South side)

17/95 No. 50 6/6/52 (The Old Hall)

GV II*

House. Mid C18 with C19 alterations and additions. Narrow brick with stone dressings, entrance front in header bond, garden front in Flemish bond. Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks. Main block double-depth plan under 2-span roof.

Entrance front: 3-storey, 5-bay main block with recessed 3-storey end bays and single-storey, 2-bay pavilion on left return. Raised-and-chamfered quoins. Central 6-panel door and fanlight in pedimented Roman Ionic surround with engaged columns. Windows in eared-and-shouldered architraves: 12-pane sashes on ground and first floors; square 6-pane sashes on second floor. Sun Co. fire-insurance mark above central first-floor window. Modillion eaves cornice of wood. Roof has coped gables, shaped kneelers and end stacks. End bays: 8- and 4-pane sashes in identical architraves, modillion eaves cornice, hipped roofs. Pavilion has stone plinth, raised-and-chamfered quoins, two 12-pane sashes in eared architraves and a hipped roof.

Garden front on sloping site: main block 3 storeys plus basement, 5 bays and recessed end bays; 2-storey pavilion at right. Details as for entrance front (except central replaced door, in pedimented Roman Ionic surround, approached via swept flight of 9 steps with a cast-iron wreathed-and-ramped handrail on ornamental balusters; and square 6-pane sashes in flat-faced surrounds on basement). Tall rebuilt end stacks on main block; pavilion has blocked basement windows.

Interior altered in late C19-early C20.

Listing NGR: NZ3055410107