Braffords Hall

Braffords Hall is a house built after 1812 for Mr. Robert Osborne, Recorder of Hull. It is constructed of white brick with stone dressings and has slate roofs. The main part of the building is two storeys high and consists of three bays, with projecting end wings that are also two storeys and one bay each.

The central entrance features a glazed and panelled door beneath a fanlight with radial glazing, set in a rusticated surround that includes a carved face of Neptune at the keyblock, flanked by blank panels. A semicircular porch supported by Tuscan columns features a frieze and cornice. On either side of the entrance are paired 12-pane sash windows with sills beneath slightly cambered lintels. There is a first-floor sill band, and the central sash window above has glazing bars within an architrave, flanked by additional sashes with glazing bars under wedge lintels. The building has an eaves cornice and a blocking course.

The wings on either side mirror the main structure, with tripartite sash windows on the ground floor set in round-headed recesses with fanned tympanums. The first-floor windows also have a sill band and are topped with cambered wedge lintels. Each wing features corner pilasters, parapets with central balustered panels, and hipped roofs with interior side wall stacks.

Inside, there is a cut-string staircase with wood and metal stick balusters and a slender ramped handrail. Most of the original six-beaded-panel doors remain, along with several contemporary pine fireplaces and plaster cornices and centrepieces.