Gayton Hall

Gayton Hall is a country house dating from around 1800. It was originally built as a shooting box for St. Andrew St. John. The house is constructed of gault brick, with a slate roof. The building has an irregular plan developed in several phases, and was raised to three storeys. The principal facade, facing southwest, has a seven-bay arrangement divided into three ranges, each with a hipped slate roof. The central range of three bays is distinguished by a bowed front which rises higher than the flanking ranges. The ground floor features semi-circular headed recesses containing sash windows with slender glazing bars, terminating in flat arches. A classical doorway, with a fanlight containing glazing bars and curved glass, has been reset into the second bay; the bowed sashes of bays three to five are curved to match. Sash windows with glazing bars are also present on the first and second floors, the second-floor windows containing six panes each. All sash windows are recessed. Bays six and seven were constructed around 1930 to match the earlier bays. The right return has a single bay of three storeys, in an Italianate style, with a ground-floor loggia of three semi-circular headed brick arches. Sash windows with glazing bars are present. The left return has two bays of three storeys, with a further two bays added to the left and raised to three storeys. Sash windows of decreasing height, with glazing bars, are a feature. A doorcase with an open pediment and a semi-circular head is located to the right of the left addition.