Claxby Hall

Claxby Hall is a house, reputedly built in the mid-18th century for Samuel Dashwood as a dower house to Well Hall. It underwent alterations in the early 19th century, including a possible re-facing of the exterior, with later 20th-century alterations. The roof is hipped and covered in slate, with overhanging eaves. It stands on a plinth.

The main south front, originally a garden front, has six bays, with the central two bays slightly projecting. The ground floor has two low-glazing bar sash windows, flanked by two smaller glazing bar sashes; above are six matching sashes, all set beneath cambered arches. An ashlar coat of arms is set between the floors on the right side. The east front, now the entrance front, has two bays and a central pilaster buttress. The doorway has a part-glazed door, a glazing bar overlight, panelled reveals, a bay leaf frieze, and a small hood. To the left is a single 20th-century window with a glazing bar sash. Above are two tripartite glazing bar sashes, also beneath cambered arches.

A single-storey range of red brick and pantile extends from the north front, adjoining a red brick and pantile barn, later converted for domestic use. The barn has a single ridge stack and coped gables.

The interior retains many fielded panel doors and reveals. A suite of rooms includes a former entrance hall with panelled walls, decorated with an egg and dart motif. The ceiling here is elaborately decorated with stylised shell and foliate motifs, and the cornice is enriched with dentils and egg and dart. A fireplace features a decorated pulvinated frieze, with an overmantel framing a portrait. Four doorways lead off this hall, each having a pulvinated acorn leaf frieze and cornice. Two further rooms are panelled. Early 19th-century decorative ceilings and egg and dart cornices are present. Fireplaces have decorated pulvinated friezes. The present entrance hall has an ashlar fireplace with a keystone. The staircase is open-well, with turned balusters, a foliate-decorated vase newel, carved tread ends, and a moulded mahogany handrail. The dado incorporates pilasters. Many rooms have fielded panel shutters.