Heighington Hall

Heighington Hall is a large house built in the late 17th to early 18th century, with an addition from the late 18th to early 19th century. The front is made of tooled, dressed sandstone, while the returns and rear are rendered. It features plain tiled roofs and stone chimney stacks. Originally, it was a wide, gable-fronted house, with a later range added across the front.

The two-storey, five-bay facade has a low plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. The central entrance consists of a pair of replaced glazed doors set in a red sandstone doorcase, which has fluted pilasters, dosserets, and a scrolled pediment with a blank shield in the tympanum. The windows are 12-pane sashes, some of which have been replaced, and are framed in raised moulded surrounds. A solid corniced parapet, marked by a narrow band, features central and end piers with scrolled supports. The roof is low-pitched and hipped, with lateral stacks.

On the right return, there is a six-panel door with a patterned fanlight, located in an open-pedimented stone doorcase. The gabled rear has a projecting left bay and a central 24-pane round-arched stair window with a radial-glazed head.

Inside, the cellar has a brick segmental tunnel vault. The cut-string open-well staircase consists of three flights plus a landing rail, featuring a panelled dado, two bold turned balusters per tread, and a ramped and wreathed handrail. The ground floor includes several six-panel doors in architraves and four-panel window shutters. The first-floor corridor has six two-panel doors in architraves with panelled reveals.