Eastoft Hall

Eastoft Hall is a house of mid-18th century or earlier date, extended and refronted in the mid-19th century. It stands on the north side of Luddington Road.

The building is constructed in brick with chamfered rusticated stucco dressings to the south and west sides of the main range, rough render to the east side, and colour-washed render to the rear wing. It features stucco and ashlar dressings throughout, with a Welsh slate roof.

The plan is L-shaped, comprising a double-depth main range with a central entrance hall on the south and west fronts, and an earlier rectangular three-room range forming the two east rooms and kitchen wing to the rear right.

The south front is two storeys with three bays. A moulded brick plinth runs beneath. The entrance is approached by two stone steps leading to a stucco doorcase with pilasters carrying an entablature and hood. The panelled door sits beneath a moulded lintel and plain overlight in a stepped reveal. To the left is a four-pane sash window; to the right, a tripartite sash with glazing bars. An entablature with moulded cornice forms the first-floor band. First-floor windows are four-pane sashes. All windows have sills beneath channelled cambered arches. The building is crowned by a corbelled moulded brick eaves cornice with moulded ashlar corner pieces and a double-span hipped roof. A side wall stack rises to the right.

The left return forms a secondary west garden front of three bays arranged symmetrically. The plinth, first-floor band and eaves cornice match those of the south front. A step leads to a half-glazed panelled door with engraved glass, beneath a moulded lintel and plain overlight. Ground-floor windows are four-pane sashes with sills beneath keyed stucco arches. On the first floor, a tall central round-headed stair window with margin lights sits beneath a channelled and keyed stucco arch, flanked by four-pane sashes in similar surrounds. The hipped roof carries a pair of twentieth-century rebuilt ridge stacks.

A lower two-storey kitchen wing set back to the left features a six-fielded-panel door, a small eight-pane first-floor sliding sash, a lateral stack, and tumbled-in brick to the raised left gable.

The right return (east side) of the main range has, on the ground floor, a twelve-pane sash to the left and a two-light sash with glazing bars to the right; a nineteenth-century three-light mullioned and transomed window serves the right wing. The first-floor band and stepped-in upper storey of the main range carries three four-pane sashes; the wing has a small eight-pane first-floor sliding sash.

The interior contains notable architectural features. The stairhall has a small circular opening to the upper hall with a moulded surround. The staircase is of open-well design with a pulvinated string, ornate splat balustrade and chamfered newel posts with carved finials. The upper hall has a similar balustrade to the circular well, a pair of basket-arched openings with corbelled archivolts, a moulded ceiling cornice, and a circular stair light above the well with radial glazing bars in a moulded surround. Moulded cornices are present throughout the entrance lobby, halls and all main rooms. The south-west room features a pilastered red marble chimney-piece; the south-east room has a Classical-style columned wooden chimney-piece and overmantel. An original eighteenth-century axial stack survives on the east side, with a nineteenth-century keyed round-arched grey marble chimney-piece serving the north-east room. Panelled doors and window shutters throughout are set in architraves; those to the east rooms and kitchen are fielded-panelled.

The stairhall details show similarities with those at The Old Vicarage on High Street in Luddington and The Old Vicarage on Manor Road in Adlingfleet (Twin Rivers parish).

A hall is shown in this position on Jeffrey's Map of Yorkshire of 1775.