Westhorpe Hall

SOUTHWELL

WESTHORPE, Westhorpe SK6853 1919-0/9/243 (North side) 11/08/61 Westhorpe Hall (Formerly Listed as: WESTHORPE The Hall)

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Country house, now flats. Late C18, altered early C19. Converted to flats late C20. Stucco, with stone dressings and hipped slate roofs. Plinth, moulded and rebated eaves. 5 side wall and 2 ridge stacks. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. Irregular eastern entrance front, 2 storeys, has an off-centre hipped projection with recessed Classical porch with 2 square piers and moulded cornice. Moulded 6-panel door with fanlight and flanking lights. Above, a single sash. To right, C19 hipped 2 storey addition with canted corner and 2 stone cross-casements on each floor. To left, a set back bay with 2 sashes on each floor. To left again, a short hipped wing, 2 storeys plus basement, with 3 mullioned casements and above, a single sash on each floor. 7-window Gothick north front, 2 storeys, has plinth and crenellated parapet. Projecting centre has a single Gothick casement on each floor. On either side, a shallow canted 2 storey bay window each with a central French window flanked by single casements and above, 3 similar casements. Irregular west side has to left a canted 2 storey hipped wing with cross casements. To its right, a hipped single storey billiard room. 3 storey south side, 5 windows, has a shallow-gabled Classical porch to right. This building was the home of General Warrand, who played a part in the Indian Mutiny.

Listing NGR: SK6874053637