Hastings House

Hastings House is a house dating from 1902, designed by Stockdale Harrison and Sons for W H Stevens. It is an example of Arts and Crafts Vernacular Revival style, constructed using brick with stone dressings and some half timbering, and features a plain tile roof. The building's plan is clearly expressed externally, with a service wing forming a courtyard on the front.

The main range of the entrance front comprises four bays, with an additional bay to the left of the porch, providing light to the hall through two small stained glass windows. The porch is a narrow, full-height projecting gable containing a timbered arched entrance door and jettied half-timbering above with four-light mullioned windows. The hallway is further emphasized by a long band of windows consisting of ten stone mullions. Further mullioned windows of six and two lights are above, and two attic dormers are incorporated into the roof. A service wing is located to the right, featuring a back door and smaller casement windows. The eastern gable wall has an expressed and moulded brick stack, which acts as a visual pivot and contains two small inglenook windows.

The upper storey features jettied timberwork extending across the garden front, which is of five bays and arranged asymmetrically. Paired gables are positioned to the left. One gable includes a wide canted bay with two-light mullioned windows and cartouche decoration above, while the other has a wide mullioned and transomed window. In the central section is a loggia with Doric columns, recessed beneath the jettying, and a wide five-light mullioned and transomed window beyond. A canted bay window features in the right-hand bay. Stone mullions are used for ground-floor windows, while wood is used for the first-floor windows, with hipped gabled dormers built into the roof. A tile-hung western gable includes an oriel bay window at first-floor level, with the gable jettied out above. This balances another tile-hung gable across the rear courtyard.

The interior is in a loosely Jacobethan style, updated with the use of lincruste above the wood panelling. A fine staircase, featuring heavy newels and Jacobean-style carving, defines a square with a gallery above. A stained glass window in the hall depicts Sir Galahad and Sir Lancelot in a Pre-Raphaelite style. A plan, held by Oadby and Wigston District Council, is stamped with the name Stockdale Harrison and Sons and is dated January 23, 1902.