Quaintree Hall

SK 80 NW BRAUNSTON CEDAR STREET (East side)

1/33 Quaintree Hall (formerly listed as the Cedars with outbuildings) 14.6.54

GV II*

Large house, partially late C16 or early C17, altered and extended later, probably largely in the C18. Coursed ironstone rubble with sandstone dressings, and stone tiled roof. 2 storeys with attics - L plan. Main range has coped gable facing onto street, and is of 3 bays with 3-light stone ovolo moulded mullioned windows with hoodmoulds to each floor randomly placed and 2 catslide dormers above. A massive stone stack projects on the inner face, and in the gable wall are various late C18 windows; a large French window to the ground floor, and sashes above, all with stressed stone architraves and keystones. Wing to north is of 2 bays with a triple light sash window in stressed architrave to outer side of ground floor, and a high blocked mullioned window on inner side. Above, is a late Victorian 3-light window and a sash with margin lights in a C18 surround. Gable end stack. This, and the other stack terminate in octagonal shafts which are possibly C19.

The rear wing contains the remnants of an earlier timber hall: Crown post roof an unusual construction, upon base crucks, probably late C13.

A stretch of rubble wall with ashlar coping links the house with a C17 outbuilding. This is gable-on to street, banded coursed rubble with stone- tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic. 2 3-light stone mullioned windows in the gable wall and paired lancets in the apex beneath cable-moulded round arch, presumably not in-situ.

Listing NGR: SK8328806729