Bleasby East Hall And West Hall

Bleasby East Hall and West Hall

House, now divided into two houses. The building has an early 18th-century core with probable earlier origins. Part of the structure was re-fenestrated in the late 18th century, and the frontage was refronted in the early 19th century with an extension dated 1836. The building was divided into two separate dwellings in the 20th century.

The main frontage is constructed of red brick, stuccoed and painted, with some ashlar. The roof is graded slate with a tripartite brick and render stack to the right gable and a single quadripartite ridge stack. The gables are topped with ashlar coping. The eaves feature a modillion cornice. The building is two storeys plus an attic and spans seven bays. The central bay and the outer narrow bays project to form mock turrets, each with embattled parapets supported on brackets.

The central recessed porch has an outer Tudor arched entrance with an inner door of two panels surmounted by two pointed arched lights and a traceried fanlight. On either side are two glazing bar sashes, and the outer turrets contain single blind lancets. The first floor has a central glazing bar cross casement flanked by two glazing bar sashes, with single blind lancets in the turrets. All windows feature Tudor style hood moulds with label stops. The attic contains a central wooden casement with three quatrefoil lights and glazing bars. The turrets in the attic have single decorative cross arrow loops.

To the left, set back, is a lower two-storey plus attic wing of two bays, linked to the main house by a lower single-bay wing with an embattled parapet and single Gothick glazing bar casements with Tudor style hood moulds on each floor. The 1836 extension is a two-bay wing, dated in the left gable, constructed of cement render with a slate roof and a single ridge quadripartite stack. It has ashlar coped gables with decorative kneelers and sits on a plinth. The windows are two glazing bar sashes with two similar sashes above, all with Tudor style hood moulds. The attic features two gabled full dormers, each with a single lancet with iron grille.

The right side of the house, which probably originally served as an entrance front, has single similar outer turrets. The ground floor contains a single cross casement with Gothick glazing bars comprising two pointed arched lights under an ogee arch with two trefoils above. To the right is a single tripartite Gothick glazing bar casement. The first floor has a single similar cross casement on the left with evidence of a single dropped stair light to the right, and further right is a single glazing bar sash with Gothick glazing bars. The top floor contains a single small Gothick glazing bar casement and a single small Gothick glazing bar sash to the right.

Projecting from this front is a 19th-century single-storey wing of cement render and slate with an ashlar coped gable. It contains two openings, each of two pointed arched lights with hood moulds and label stops. There are further single-storey extensions from the 20th century. The rear elevation also has single similar corner turrets, with 19th-century extensions to the right.

The interior contains marble fireplaces and 18th-century door cases probably removed from another house. There are two niches with 18th-century glazed doors. A first-floor room features an egg and dart cornice. The kitchen contains a possible 17th-century door frame.