Haldenby Hall

Haldenby Hall is a house dating from the late 17th century, with alterations made in the mid-19th century, including an entrance porch and a rear wing. The earlier section is constructed of whitewashed red brick topped with a pantile roof, while the rear wing is made of yellow brick with a Welsh slate roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, featuring an earlier three-room east range with an entrance located to the left of the center, likely originally a lobby-entry, which has been replaced or altered by a later entrance passage that runs through the axial stack. There is a single-room wing at the rear.

The house stands two stories high and has three first-floor windows. It features an ovolo-moulded top to a deep plinth and a projecting open brick porch with pointed openings on each side and a coped parapet. The 19th-century half-glazed panelled door is complemented by a large 19th-century six-pane sash window to the left, a similar six-pane sash, and a four-pane sliding sash in a reduced opening to the right, all with sills. A two-course brick band runs along the first floor, which has a four-pane sliding sash to the left, a small single-pane window above the door, and a six-pane hung sash and a twelve-pane sliding sash to the right, all with heads at eaves level. The gables are raised and brick-coped, with a projecting end stack to the left, a ridge stack to the right of center, and a truncated end stack to the right.

Inside, the early section features a wide inglenook fireplace at the east gable end, which has an inserted 19th-century range beneath a chamfered bressumer that runs the full width of the room. The ground-floor rooms have spine beams, and the first floor is plastered. The rear wing includes a notable reset 18th-century alcove cupboard with fielded-panel doors set in a round-headed surround, supported by fluted pilasters that carry an archivolt with a fluted key.

Haldenby Hall is situated on the east bank of the River Don, likely on or near the site of the medieval Haldenby Hall, which was the residence of the Haldenby family, who have monuments in Adlingfleet Church. The now deserted village of Haldenby once extended along the former riverbanks between the Hall and Haldenby Grange to the west. At the time of the last survey, the building was empty and partly derelict.