Hawerby Hall

Hawerby Hall is a house dating from around 1780, significantly altered between 1840 and 1841 for Theophilus Harneis, with a 20th-century entrance porch added later. It is constructed of stuccoed brick with a Westmoreland slate roof and is arranged in an L-shaped plan. The original two-room central entrance hall now forms the south-facing garden front, while the 1840s alterations introduced a two-room central entrance hall as the main front to the east, accompanied by a large contemporary stairhall in the rear angle.

The east front of the house is three storeys high and three bays wide, with projecting side bays. It presents a symmetrical facade, featuring a plinth and banded rustication to the ground floor. A porch, situated in the central bay, has square columns with deeply moulded plinths, supporting a moulded cornice and flat roof. A recessed four-panel door, with an ornate overlight, is set beneath the porch and flanked by tall, full-length sashes with margin lights. The side bays have unequal 15-pane ground floor sashes. A moulded band runs above the ground floor, and the first floor features 12-pane sashes within architraves, each with recessed panels below and a hood supported by scrolled consoles with moulded shell details. A narrow sash is located in the inner angle of the left bay. The second floor has 6-pane sashes within keyed architraves and moulded cills on square brackets, topped by a raised band and a stone-coped parapet. Hipped roof with a pair of axial stacks complete the east side.

The left return forms the garden front, mirroring the east front in its three-storey, three-bay symmetrical design, with a projecting central bay. The garden front includes a flat-roofed, wooden canted bay window with glazed double doors, pilasters, a plain entablature, and a cornice. It also features unequal ground floor sashes, a central first-floor sash with a hood on consoles, and 6-pane sashes to the second floor matching those on the east front.

The interior details from the 1840-41 renovations include an open-well staircase with a wreathed handrail, alternating plain and rosette cast iron balusters, a pilastrade to the first-floor landing, marble fireplaces, and moulded plaster cornices in the main rooms. Panelled doors and window shutters are set within architraves. A late 18th-century open-well back staircase exists, characterized by a moulded handrail, column newels, and balusters.