Eastwood Hall

Eastwood Hall is a house, built around 1810 for the Barber family. It is now a Regional Office for British Coal. The house is constructed of brick, covered with stucco, with a hipped slate roof. It has ashlar dressings, a plinth, a band at the first-floor level, and bracketed eaves, along with eight ridge stacks. The main building is two storeys high, with six bays wide and five bays deep, arranged on a square plan with a two-storey service wing. The windows are mostly glazing bar sashes, with some metal casements dating from around 1947; those on the front elevation have moulded architraves. The main front has a central Corinthian portico with a moulded doorway and overlight, flanked to the left by two windows with aprons, and to the right by three windows. Above are six sashes. The return angle to the north has two sashes on each floor. The hipped service wing, with seven bays, features seven casements on each floor, plus an off-centre door. The south side has three French windows and, to the right, two sashes, with five sashes above. The garden front has a recessed central bay with two sashes flanked by single French windows. Beyond this are two-storey round bay windows with conical roofs and two sashes on each floor, topped by a central plain sash flanked by single glazing bar sashes. The interior features a half-round stairwell containing a curved cantilever staircase with a ramped handrail, and above this, an elaborate plasterwork lantern. The principal rooms originally contained pilastered doorcases, classical cornices, and panelled ceilings, although the fireplaces have been removed.