Haldenby Hall

SE 81 NW LUDDINGTON AND GARTHORPE ROAD HALDENBY (north side, off) Haldenby 4/21 Haldenby Hall 17.6.87

GV II

House. Late C17 with mid C19 alterations, entrance porch and rear wing. Earlier range of whitewashed red brick with pantile roof. Rear wing of yellow brick with Welsh slate roof. T-shaped on plan: earlier 3-room east range with entrance to left of centre, probably originally lobby-entry, with later entrance passage replacing, or driven through, axial stack; single- room wing to rear. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Ovolo-moulded top to deep plinth. Projecting open brick porch with pointed openings to each side, coped parapet. C19 half-glazed panelled door. Large C19 6-pane sash to left, similar 6-pane sash and 4-pane sliding sash in reduced opening to right, with sills. 2-course brick first-floor band. First floor: 4-pane sliding sash to left, small single-pane window above door, 6-pane hung sash and 12-pane sliding sash to right, all with heads at eaves level. Raised brick-coped gables. Projecting end stack to left, ridge stack to right of centre, truncated end stack to right. Interior. Early section has wide inglenook fireplace to east gable end with inserted C19 range beneath chamfered bressumer running full width of room. Spine beams to all ground- floor rooms. Plaster first floor. Rear wing contains good reset C18 alcove cupboard with fielded-panel doors in round-headed surround with fluted pilasters carrying archivolt with fluted key. Stands on the east bank of the River Don on or near the site of the medieval Haldenby Hall, the seat of the Haldenby family, to whom there are monuments in Adlingfleet Church (qv). The now deserted village of Haldenby extended along the former riverbanks between the Hall and Haldenby Grange (qv) to the west. Empty and partly derelict at time of resurvey. R Holmes, The Wapentake of Osgoldcross, 1894, pp 70-1; N Loughlin and K Miller, A survey of Archaeological Sites in Humberside, 1979, p 155.

Listing NGR: SE8292118114