The Hall

SUTTON BONINGTON MAIN STREET SK 52 NW (east side) 4/101 The Hall (No 88) 13.10.66 G.V. II* Small country house. Early C18 with late C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Said to be built for Beaumont Parkyns, bought by the Paget family. Red brick with ashlar dressings and chamfered ashlar quoins. Rubble plinth. Bell canted hipped slate roof. 2 red brick stacks. Coved cornice decorated with some moulded human heads. L-plan with later additions. 2 storeys plus attic, 5 bays. Central doorway with panelled door, bolection moulded ashlar surround and C19 broken segmental pediment containing a single coat of arms. Either side are 2 late C18 glazing bar sashes with 3 similar sashes above, all with flush ashlar quoin surrounds of former windows. In the attic are 2 brick and slate gabled roof dormers each with single glazing bar Yorkshire sash. To the left is a 2 storey, single bay, late C18 red brick range with lower hipped slate roof and external left red brick stack and bracketed eaves. Set on a brick plinth and with first floor ashlar band. Single glazing bar sash on each floor with flush ashlar quoin surrounds. The garden/south front of 3 bays with single external red brick stack has a 2 storey bow with bracketed eaves and set on a plinth, 3 glazing bar sashes on each floor. To the right, set back, is a low glazing bar sash with open 3 bay arcaded porch, arches with keystones and impost bands supported on turned columns with decorative capitals. The outer bays being narrower. Over is an ashlar balustrade which continues over the ground floor of the single slightly projecting bay to the right which is set on an ashlar plinth and has chamfered ashlar quoins. Single central low glazing bar sash flanked by single similar narrower sashes. Above are 2 glazing bar sashes. That on the left with ashlar quoins. The attic has 3 dormers as the main front. Attached to the right and set back is the C19 conservatory with 7 gabled bays. Interior.4 mid C18 wood and marble decorative fire surrounds. Panelled doors and reveals to major ground floor rooms, fluted architraves. Panelled dados. First floor with some panelling to walls from C18 box-pews. Dining room with egg and dart cornice. Hall with good early C18 open well staircase with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SK5046825299