The Hall

THE HALL

A house on the north side of Paull Thorngumbald Road, off Boreas Hill. The building dates from the early to mid 18th century, originally built for the Carvile family. It was substantially extended in the early to mid 19th century, with a bay window added to the left return and a rear porch added in the late 19th to early 20th century.

The house is built of red brick in Flemish bond. The main range has a pantile roof, while the right extension is covered with Welsh slates. The original section is L-shaped on plan, comprising a two-room central entrance hall to the south front and a single-room wing to the rear right. Later additions include a single-room infill to the rear left, an outshut to the right, and an entrance porch to the rear.

The south front is two storeys tall with five bays and a symmetrical arrangement, with a single-bay extension set back to the right. The entrance features a stone step with moulded nosing and a doorcase with panelled pilasters carrying an entablature with raised panels to the frieze, a moulded cornice and pediment. The door itself is half-glazed with six glazed panels over two fielded panels, beneath a moulded cornice and a three-pane overlight in the reveal with moulded fielded-and-beaded panelling, particularly ornate to the soffit.

Windows throughout the south front are 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars in flush wooden architraves with sills below rubbed-brick flat arches; the first-floor windows have shallower arches. A three-course brick band runs at eaves level, with a stone-coped parapet above. The roof features a double span with tumbled-in brick to raised gables. A low inserted stone-coped parapet runs between gables to the left return, while a full-height inserted parapet stands between gables to the right return. Corner stacks have corniced tops.

The right extension has single sashes with narrow glazing bars in similar surrounds to the main range but with shallower flat arches, and a parapet with a single-course brick band that ramps down to the right.

The left return has a straight joint between the front and rear sections. Pairs of 12-pane ground and first-floor sashes are positioned to the right, similar to those at the front. To the left is a ground-floor brick canted bay with two 12-pane first-floor sashes above with narrow glazing bars.

The rear features a projecting full-height entrance porch with a stone step with moulded nosing leading to a 20th-century panelled double door beneath a basket arch with a single-course brick hoodmould. A large unequal 20-pane first-floor sash in a flush wooden architrave sits beneath a similar arch and hoodmould. Above this is a fine circular ashlar tablet with an ornate moulded border and relief depicting a mother and child. The porch has tumbled-in brick to a raised gable. The sides have single four-pane windows beneath basket arches with hoodmoulds to each floor.

Side bays have pairs of 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves at ground floor and single similar sashes at first floor. A bracketed gutter runs across. A straight joint appears to the left of the porch. The extension set back to the left has similar windows and parapet to the south front.

Interior features are substantial. The ground-floor front drawing and dining rooms each retain original early 18th-century fielded panelling with moulded dado, moulded cornice, and overmantel with eared and shouldered architrave. The drawing room to the right has an oval window above the door to the passage with thick glazing bars and architrave.

The stairhall has a moulded cornice and plasterwork oval fan motif ceiling rose. An open well cantilevered staircase, re-set or inserted in the later 18th or early 19th century, features a ramped and wreathed corniced handrail, column balusters on tall square fluted pedestals, scrolled cheekpieces, and beaded panelling to the underside.

The rear left drawing room has a moulded plaster cornice and beaded-panel window shutters. First-floor front rooms have moulded cornices, panelled window seats and shutters, and original wooden chimney-pieces with architraves, pulvinated friezes and moulded cornices. The centre-right bedroom has segmental-headed alcoves. Beaded stick balustrade appears to the early 19th-century back stairs.

The rear porch is reputed to have originated from a Hull inn and may date to the 17th century, though it has since been relocated to this site.