Wyndthorpe Hall

HATFIELD HIGH STREET SE 60 NW (south side) , Dunsville 10/38 Wyndthorpe Hall 24.11.66 II Country house now private nursing home. Early C19. Ruled stucco, Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 : 1: 3-bay entrance front with 1 : 3 :1-bay garden front on right return. Entrance front: Plinth. Central recess with glazed double doors in architrave flanked by tall Ionic columns which rise to 1st-floor sill band. Outer bays all have projecting sills to sashes with glazing bars. 1st floor: band links projecting sills to sashes as ground floor and carries over entrance columns as a corniced architrave. String course beneath eaves cornice with blocking course, taller central bay having pediment. Hipped roof with 3 corniced ridge stacks, similar stacks on taller transverse ridge to centre of range. Right return: central bays break forward. French windows to each bay, those of outer bays set in round-arched recesses. 1st floor as front with pedimented centre having architraved triangular panel in tympanum. Central ridge and separate hipped roofs over side bays with stacks as seen from front.

Interior: galleried central stair-hall with Ionic columns and pilasters to ground floor and superimposed Ionic order over; contemporary fireplace on right with recessed panels to jambs and frieze. Wooden staircase leading from left with wrought-iron balustrade to wreathed wooden handrail - matching balcony balustrade removed (said to be in store); architraved wall panels and cornices; domed roof light with radial glazing bars. Earlier marble fireplace in front-right room with coloured inlay and damaged panel on frieze of shepherd and dog (attributed to Sir Henry Cheere in previous list description); room to its rear has fine wooden fireplace in Adam style with trophies on each jamb but its garlanded frieze decoration missing. Former home of Lord Chetwyn. Additional ranges on left return not of special interest.

Listing NGR: SE6391007406