Whiston Hall

SK49SW WHISTON CHAFF LANE (north side, off) Whiston Hall 5/96 GV II

Manor house now nursing home. Early C16 core, encased and extended in early C17, further extended C18 and with later alterations. Some internal timber framing; coursed dressed sandstone; C20 cement-tile roof. Irregular plan: 5-bay main range to right with cross-wing to left, single-room wing set back to far left. 2 storeys with partial cellars, total of 7 bays to entrance front. Main range: plinth, large quoins, 1st-floor band. Bay 2 has C20 door in architrave with dripstone set above band. To right, three 3-light square-faced mullioned windows to each floor have renewed casements with glazing bars; matching 2-light window above door has no mullion. To left a large 30-pane sash cuts through earlier opening and rises above band. Shaped kneelers, ashlar gable copings and renewed brick stack to right end of range. Truncated ashlar ridge stack to left of door and large corniced ridge stack to its right. Cross-wing: large C20 casement to each floor, ground-floor lintel band, 1st-floor window cuts through earlier opening. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings. Lateral stack to left has renewed brick shaft. Wing projecting from left return has chamfered plinth and 2-light double-chamfered mullioned window to each floor, ground-floor window has dripstone. Shaped kneelers, chamfered gable copings and tall, corniced, ashlar end stack. Finial at junction of cross-wing and wing roofs. Some double-chamfered window openings to rear elevations and to end wall of wing. Interior: framing of 3-bay structure incorporated in cross-wing and partly visible at foot and head of present staircase; king-post roof trusses (RCHM). Loft space above adjacent bay of main range has simple king-post truss (no struts) and sections of stud partition adjacent to ridge stack (possible remains of smokehood). RCHM report 1973, National Monuments Record.

Listing NGR: SK4474290103