Hallaton Manor

SP79NE 4/48

HALLATON CRANOE ROAD (South Side) Hallaton Manor

II Country House. Circa 1845. Finely coursed banded ironstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, Swithland and Welsh slate roof. In a picturesque medieval style. 2 storeyed. Entrance front of three bays with central four storey tower over entrance. Canted and embattled porch with 2 centred arch doorway with hood mould and corbel heads and shields in the spandrels. Tower above has angle buttresses which form pinnacles and mullioned and transomed window on each floor. Embattled parapet with central gable containing shield and emblem. Octagonal staircase turret in one corner. Outer bays have mullioned and transomed windows of 2 and 3-lights and there is an additional lower bay recessed to the left. Coped end gables with small octagonal pinnacles decorated with crowns. Embattled parapet across this facade and the garden front. Garden front is of five bays, not quite symmetrical, with outer slightly projecting gables. Left hand gable has full height canted bay window with embattled parapet and mullioned and transomed lights. Central bays have 2-light mullioned and transomed windows on each floor to left, squared and embattled ground floor bay window to right with four mullioned and transomed lights. 3-light mullioned and transomed window above flanked by ornamental slits. Right hand gable has 3-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window and 2-light oriel window above, corbelled out. 3-light mullioned and transomed windows in far right hand bay. All windows have drop ended hood moulds with shields etc., as label stops. Recessed to the right is a mid C19 conservatory. Massive curved glass structure with no differentiation between roof and wall springing from ironstone plinth with rear brick wall. Adjoining this a length of garden wall, of coursed ironstone rubble with limestone ashlar copings.

Listing NGR: SP7824795848