The Hall Including Attached Walls And Outbuildings

The Hall including attached screen walls and outbuildings

House, dated 1789, with early 19th-century alterations and changes of circa 1905. The building stands on the west side of Eastoft High Street.

The structure is built of red-brown brick in Flemish bond, rendered to the north side, with stone dressings and a slate roof. It is approximately rectangular on plan, with a 18th-century L-shaped section originally comprising a two-room arrangement with central entrance-hall to the south front and a two-room wing to the rear right. Early 19th-century alterations remodelled the rear wing into a two-room, central entrance-hall east front, with an attached screen wall and outhouses adjoining to the right and an addition in the north-west angle that incorporates a former gardener's cottage. The building is two storeys with a plinth.

The east front has four slightly irregular bays. The entrance features a flight of four stone steps with moulded nosings, leading to a Tuscan doorcase with attached columns carrying an entablature with pulvinated frieze, moulded cornice and hood. The door comprises six panels—four fielded panels over two flush beaded panels—and is set beneath a pulvinated lintel with an overlight incorporating a central round light in a panelled soffit and reveal. Single early 20th-century canted bay windows flank the entrance to either side, the right one being wider, with casements to the front and single lights to the sides featuring small panes over plain glass, beneath moulded cornices and flat hoods. The first floor has early 20th-century sashes with similar glazing to the bay windows, set in original 19th-century flush wooden architraves with sills beneath channelled and keyed cambered wedge lintels. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs across the front. The roof is hipped, with a ridge stack to the left of centre and a right end stack with a rebuilt upper section. A stone-coped screen wall is set back to the right, ramped down to twin gables of outhouses further right, and contains a single square-headed and round-headed entrance.

The south front has three bays in symmetrical arrangement. A blocked central entrance sits beneath a cambered wedge lintel with a datestone above, inscribed 1789, now partly obscured by creeper. Ground- and first-floor windows feature 20th-century sashes similar to those of the east front, set in original flush wooden architraves with sills beneath keyed cambered wedge lintels. A moulded wooden eaves cornice runs across, with a hipped roof above. A 19th-century ridge stack and a side wall stack to the left are present.

The west side shows a straight joint and features an early 19th-century six-fielded-panel door beneath an overlight with margin lights. The fenestration is varied, including a tripartite ground-floor sash with glazing bars, a first-floor 24-pane sash stair window, and an early 20th-century segmental bowed oriel window. A bell in a wooden housing is positioned to the first-floor right.

The outhouses to the north include a former twin privy section with an oculus to the north and coped parapets ramped up on either side.

Interior features include an entrance hall with a moulded cornice and round-arched openings to the service passage and stairhall with panelled soffits. An open-well staircase has a wreathed handrail and slender, slightly bulged column-on-vase balusters with profiled cheek-pieces. Main ground-floor rooms have moulded plaster cornices and marble chimney-pieces in the south rooms. Fielded-panel doors in architraves with pulvinated panels and roundel ornament to the corners are present throughout. The first floor was not inspected.