Barnby Hall Including Attached Archway To Left Side

SE 20 NE CAWTHORNE LANE HEAD ROAD (north side, off)

3/51 Barnby Hall 18.3.68 including attached archway to left side

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Large house. Circa 1820. Coursed, dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Stone slate roof. Two storeys and attic. In Jacobean style. 2 storeys, with attics. 3+ bays. Double-chamfered windows with 6- and 8- pane lights. Each end bay is gabled and has a 4-light window to each floor with hoodmould and a narrow single light to apex. The entrance has deeply- chamfered jambs and an arched head with sunken spandrels and a deep hoodmould. To its right is the hall window of 5 over 5 lights with transom. A 3-light window is above this and a single light over the entrance. Hollow-chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers, with finials to each apex. A group of 4 tall octagonal ashlar stacks with cornices. The rear is plainer with single- and 2-light windows. The entrance has a shouldered head and is gained by 4 round steps. The left and right returns are similarly treated. The former has a small gable to left and a reducing external stack to right. Attached to the base of the stack is a reset arch which may be medieval.

Interior: the wooden staircase is off a through passage and has slender turned balusters and a swept handrail. There is a further staircase at the rear of the house.

Listing NGR: SE2921608079