Onesacre Hall

SK29SE BRADFIELD GREEN LANE (north side)

9/37 Onesacre Hall (formerly listed as Tophill 25/4/69 Farmhouse, Onesacre).

II*

Large house now 2 dwellings. Two builds, c1630-40 and c1660-70. (S. Jones). Ashlar sandstone except left return which is thin bedded rubble, stone slate roof. Modified H-plan, only left crosswing projects to rear. Gabled. 2 storeys and attic, 5 windows to first floor. Double-chamfered mullion windows throughout, some transomed, C20 leaded casements . Dripmoulds to each floor, carved kneelers and chamfered gable copings with bases for apex finials. Hall block; door to right has moulded quoined surround and lintel with bi-arcuate shaped soffit and carved spandrels . C20 part-glazed door. Cross-mullion window to left, two similar windows to first floor and 3-light mullion to attic. Short ashlar ridge stack to right. Crosswing to left has two 3-light windows to ground and first floors, another to attic, Shouldered and corniced ashlar ridge stack. (In the short right return to hall block is an inserted door with blocked window above). Crosswing to right has a cross-mullion window to left of ground and first floors, Short corniced ashlar end stack. Rear: hall block has 4-light window with king mullion to ground floor, two 2-light windows above and single attic light, Crosswing to right has 4-light window with king mullion and transom to ground and first floors, a 3-light window to attic. Wing to left with large projecting stack terminating in twin corniced flues. Left return: 2-light window with hoodmould to right, small C20 projecting stack to , its right. Right return: 3-light window to left, altered 4-light to right. Two 4-light windows to first floor, and two 3-light windows to twin gabled dormers. Interior: chamfer-stopped beams in wing to left. Rich bead-moulds to hall and wing to right which also retains a large arched kitchen fireplace in the rear room. Shallow projecting stone fireplace to hall.

S. Jones. 'Stone Houses in the Vernacular Tradition in North Yorkshire' Archaeological Journal, vol 137, 1980, pp386-7.

Listing NGR: SK2973193436