Kingsbury Hall

Kingsbury Hall is a manor house dating back to around 1500, with substantial rebuilding in the late 16th and 18th centuries, an 18th- or early 19th-century wing, and alterations throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The building is constructed of regular coursed sandstone, with some areas rebuilt in brick, and has old plain-tile roofs with some gable parapets, and a slate roof to the wing. Stone, brick, and 19th-century brick stacks are present. The building has an irregular plan formed of two parallel ranges with a small wing set at right angles. It is two storeys high with an attic. The east front features shaped gables to each range. The south range, to the left, has a two-storey opening with a plank door and boarding above, likely from the 19th century. There are 19th-century three-light casements with horizontal glazing bars on the first floor and between floors. Gables have large stone mullioned windows with four-centred arched lights, a central transom, and hood moulds. A narrower range, set back on the right, has a plank door with a stone lintel. The left return side of the left range has a stone lateral stack with a truncated brick shaft. The right return side of the right range has 19th-century three-light casements with top lights and horizontal glazing bars, set within brick segmental arches. First-floor casements are inserted into what were originally blocked mullioned windows. A two-storey wing at right angles on the right has a low-pitched roof and is constructed of brick. A boarded-up canted bay and window are visible on the west side of the wing. The left range features a late rib front wall with a clasping buttress on the left and a shaped gable. Boarded-up ground-floor windows are present. First-floor and gable windows are mullioned, with a central transom and hood moulds. One light on the first floor is blocked, and the central attic lights have been removed and blocked. The right range, set back, has a front of 18th-century brick. The interior of the south range contains a former first-floor hall, now divided into two rooms, with a moulded stone Tudor-arched fireplace and a ribbed ceiling. Rooms below have heavy chamfered spine beams and joists, with stop-chamfered purlins, wind braces, plastered rafters, and collar beams. The north range has an east doorway leading directly onto a 15th-century staircase. A 16th-century fireplace is found in a western room on the first floor. The property is surrounded by 14th-century curtain walls to the south and east.