Old Hall Farmhouse And Garden Wall

ESTON LACKENBY LANE, Lackenby. NZ 51 NE 7/15 Old Hall Farmhouse and garden wall. G.V. II*

Farmhouse, mid/late C17, altered in C18 and C19; with late C18 right extension. Dressed sandstone with chamfered plinth; gable of left return repaired in brick. Left return of extension partly brick. Clay pantile roofs with stone ridge copings; gable copings renewed in concrete. Upper parts of stacks rebuilt in brick. 2 storeys and attic; 3 windows. Late C20 door in altered window opening, at right of blocked off-centre doorway with quoin surround. Enlarged window openings, with blocked remains of chamfered-mullioned windows, now holding renewed sash and mid C20 casement, at left end. Similar stair window and blocked remains of attic stair window at left of original doorway. 4-light chamfered-mullioned first-floor window, holding Victorian sashes, at right end. Dripmoulds between floors, broken through by altered windows. 2 iron tie plates on upper floors. 2-storey, projecting gabled extension has mid C20 window at left on ground floor. Left return has sash windows with glazing bars, stone sills and keystones in flat brick arches. Moulded eaves cornice and hollow-chamfered kneelers. Roof hipped at rear. Returns of farmhouse have external stacks, that at right concealed by extension, that at left with hollow-chamfered offsets and partly jettied on row of 3 moulded corbels on ground floor. Enlarged fire windows now holding sashes with glazing bars, and blocked garret light, at left of stack. Left end of rear shows blocked chamfered first-floor window, and altered 2-light chamfered mullioned windows, that on ground floor partly blocked, now holding horizontal sashes. Dripmoulds between floors. 2 iron cross tie plates on upper floors. Garden wall at front has sloped-topped copings. Interior: early C19 dogleg staircase with stick balusters and moulded handrail. C17 timber panelling divided into bays by 2 quasi-Ionic pilasters with scooped ornament on shafts, at head of stair. King-post roof trusses. Extension has inglenook fireplace with moulded firebeam. Late C19 return of garden wall is not of special interest. Rear wall of farmhouse badly bulged outwards at time of resurvey.

Listing NGR: NZ5650319397