Haughton Hall

A house, now a school, dating from 1718, with alterations from the early 19th century and the 20th century. The house is constructed of red brick with an early 19th-century stucco facing, and has a 2-span slate roof. It has a basement, two storeys, and an attic. The front façade features a moulded plinth, a moulded cill string, a moulded plaster cornice, a panelled parapet with moulded stone coping, shaped parapeted gable ends with moulded stone coping, and a central round-arched dormer with a glazing bar sash window and a lugged architrave. There are two pairs of end stacks with stone quoins and clustered square shafts with stone cornices; a central ridge stack has three square shafts. The front has seven bays with glazing bar sashes, with flush boxes; those on the ground floor have keystones. The central first-floor window has a moulded, lugged architrave, a keystone, flanking scrolls, and a half-H apron. Eight steps with low walls lead to a central round-arched six-panelled door with a plain architrave, an extended keystone, and panelled spandrels. The doorcase consists of two three-quarter Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and a triangular pediment. Around 1820-30, projecting wings were added – the wing to the left has two storeys and five bays with glazing bar sashes, and there is a 20th-century addition projecting to the right. The garden front has raised quoins, a plinth, a string course, a cornice, a parapet with a central plaque inscribed A.S.H., and two central round-arched dormers from 1718 with lugged architraves. Glazing bar sashes have lugged architraves. The early 19th-century wings have a cornice, a blocking course, and hipped slate roofs, with two bays; glazing bar sashes; the outer bays project with recessed ground floor segmental headed tripartite sashes; the inner bays have ground floor loggias consisting of two Greek Doric columns supporting an entablature. Inside, the Entrance Hall has a three-flight square well staircase with an open string, three twisted balusters to each tread, Doric column-newels, a moulded ramped handrail, inlay in the half-landings, and raised and fielded panelled wainscot. Raised and fielded panelled doors are found throughout.