Banks Hall

SE 20 NE CAWTHORNE WOOLSTOCKS LANE (South end, off)

3/78 Banks Hall 18.3.68

II

Country house, now old people's home. Mid C18 with C17 wings at rear. Coursed, dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof. Two storeys. L-shape plan with wings and infill at rear. 7-bay symmetrical facade. Rusticated quoins. Central doorway whose eared architrave and console-supported open segmental pediment, have been brought forward to form a stone porch. 12-pane sash windows in moulded architraves. Aprons of first-floor windows extend to band above ground-floor windows. Moulded eaves cornice and blocking course. Hipped roof. Rusticated ashlar ridge stacks. Right return is similar but slightly plainer. The doorway has eared architrave, cornice on console brackets and overlight with radial glazing. Rear: C17 wing at right side, altered on its outer side but retaining several cross-windows to upper floor on the inner side. Hollow-chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers. Shorter rear wings, with hipped roofs, also retain traces of early openings.

Interior: The central room, formerly the hall, is panelled, the panelling said to be from Cannon Hall. At the back of the hall two Doric columns support the landing of the excellent, dog-leg, open staircase, which has gadrooned, tapering balusters (2 per tread), ramped and moulded handrail and panelled dado.

Listing NGR: SE2810706578