Low Middleton Hall And Former Stable On Rear

Low Middleton Hall is a house dating from 1721, built for Robert Killinghall. It was altered in the late 18th century and further extended around 1870. Additional features include a former stable block on the rear. The main fabric is squared red sandstone with brick dressings, and it has pantiled roofs, old brick chimney stacks, and roughcast brick additions to the rear.

The house consists of a one-room-deep main block with two gabled wings to the rear. A late 18th-century wing sits alongside a late 19th-century former stable on a central rear wing, with a circa 1870 tower and stair turret on the right rear. The main block is three stories high with ten bays. It features squared quoins. A doorway and two early 19th-century 12-pane sashes are within altered openings on the centre of the ground floor. Original openings elsewhere have brick jambs and flat arches. The 12-pane sashes largely retain thick glazing bars with ovolo moulding on the inside, while the top floor has square 6-pane sashes and 12-pane horizontal-sliding sashes. A square stone sundial with an iron gnomon is located centrally on the first floor. The eaves are raised in brick, and a painted stone cornice runs along the top. The steep roof has coped gables and end and ridge stacks. A lead rainwater head dated 1721 (RKI) is on the left return. An elaborate rainwater head dated 1696 along with a lead tank dated 1765 (brought from a house in Yarm around 1890) is located at the rear. The rear has two two-story, single-bay deep gabled wings, partly concealed by later additions. The central wing features an embattled parapet and a 1721 rainwater head. The rear additions include a three-story square-plan tower and a lower stair turret, also with embattled parapets on the right. Further additions include a tall, single-story two-bay wing and a two-story, three-bay former stable on the rear of the gabled central wing; the former has a six-panel door and paired sashes, while the latter has a central Dutch door and partly-glazed hit-and-miss windows, under a continuous steeply-pitched roof.

Inside the main block, a central open-well staircase from the 18th century is present, with a 19th-century stick balustrade and handrail. A back stair has a moulded closed string, panelled newels, turned balusters, and a ramped, square-sectioned handrail. A ground-floor room to the right retains original panelling with a dado rail, a bolection-moulded wood chimneypiece with an overmantel, an 8-panel door with panelled reveals, and a ceiling cornice. An adjacent room also has original panelling. First-floor bedrooms also have early 18th-century panelling and some two-panel doors.

The rear additions and former stable are included for their contribution to the group value. An altered cottage attached to the stable is not considered to be of special interest.