Hawksworth Manor And Adjoining Pigeoncote

Hawksworth Manor is a manor house dating from the mid-17th century. It was extended, raised, and refenestrated in the mid-to-late 19th century, with a matching rear wing added in 1910 by B. Bradwell. A pigeoncote, built in 1665, adjoins the manor. The manor is constructed of coursed rubble and brick, with steep-pitched gabled and pyramidal plain tile roofs. It has a rubble plinth and stone dressings, along with two gable and two ridge stacks featuring grouped octagonal shafts. The building has two storeys plus garrets and a five-bay, unequal frontage, arranged in an L-shape. The windows are largely mid-19th century iron casements with lozenge glazing bars. The northwest front features a centrally positioned two-storey porch from the mid-19th century, with a chamfered plinth, bargeboarded gable, central door, and casements to the left and right sides, with matching casements above. The west gable has blocked openings on each floor and a Yorkshire sash window in the garret. The garden front has a central door with a stair light above, flanked by two casements to the left and one to the right, with further casements above. Two gabled dormers featuring casements are also present above. A square, parapeted porch from 1910 provides access from the angle return, with a half-glazed door. The rear wing, facing the garden, has three casements on each floor, with cross-eaves cornices above; the gable has two casements on each floor. The northeast side of the rear wing mirrors this design. A mid-19th century brick service wing, two bays wide, is situated to the northeast, displaying dentillated eaves and a single ridge stack and containing four 20th-century casements, a door with a segmental head, and a square hatch. The pigeoncote is a two-storey square building featuring a string course. Its front has an altered opening with a segmental head containing two stable doors with segmental heads. Above this is a datestone inscribed “SNG / IVLY S5.1665”, and above again a two-stage square timber glover with a pyramidal lead roof with finial. The rear of the pigeoncote has an opening with four square timber pigeonholes. A 19th-century stable adjoins the pigeoncote to the right, having a pair of sliding doors on the southwest side and a single stable door in the northwest gable. The main house has a principal rafter roof with butt purlins and collars. Inside, a three-flight dogleg staircase with landings exists, dated to the 18th century, with square newels and stick balusters; the ground floor stage was altered circa 1944. Notable fireplaces include a 17th-century Renaissance revival fireplace with a fluted frieze and scroll brackets, embellished with 19th-century pilasters and a mantel shelf; a mid-19th century marble and timber fireplace with Adam-style ornament and a bow-fronted grate (sourced from Clumber Park); an early 19th century hob grate with a mid-19th century Adam-style timber surround; two 18th-century panelled doors; two 18th-century fitted cupboards; and fourteen 19th-century plank doors, two of which have wooden latches.