Hazon House

Hazon House is a Grade II listed L-shaped house located in Newton-on-the-Moor, dated 1684, with the initials R E (for Robert and Elizabeth Lisle) above the door. It may incorporate earlier fabric and was extended at the rear in the late 18th century, with a west extension dated 1887 noted on a kneeler. The building is constructed of squared stone with cut dressings, featuring tooled-and-margined dressings on the 18th-century parts and squared tooled stone on the 1887 section. The roof is made of Welsh slate, with some stacks rebuilt in brick and rendered.

The south elevation is two storeys high and consists of two bays on the right, which belong to the 17th-century house. It has a central vertical-panelled door with an overlight, set in an opening with old moulded jambs and a 19th-century lintel. Above the door is an armorial date panel in a moulded surround. The window openings also feature old moulded jambs and later lintels, with eaves cornices and coped gables on moulded kneelers and rebuilt end stacks. The 1887 left part has a coped gable on moulded kneelers, with stepped-and-corniced left end and ridge stacks. All windows are 6-pane sashes. The left return displays a 19th-century part-glazed door with a latticed overlight and a 12-pane sash, along with a set-back left 18th-century rear extension featuring 16-pane sashes and a short two-storey wing to the far left. The right return shows a 6-pane sash with a blocked 17th-century window to the right, along with the rear quoins of the 17th-century house and a 16-pane sash in the extension.

The interior has been largely remodelled in the late 19th century, but the 17th-century parlour fireplace remains, featuring a flat-pointed arch in a square moulded frame with a cut-back swell frieze and cornice above.

The Lisle family has owned Hazon since the mid-16th century, and the hall of the present house was heated by a lateral rather than an end stack, suggesting that the 1684 house was a remodelling of an older structure.