Letheringsett Hall

The house at Letheringsett Hall was constructed around 1809 and further developed in 1832. It is built of gault brick with a green slate roof and wide eaves. The building has an irregular plan, with a south range of 4 bays and 2 storeys, and extensions to both sides and the rear.

The principal facade faces south and features a full-height colonnade of 5 fluted and rendered Greek Doric columns, supporting a wide Doric entablature with returns to the left and right. The roof rises from the south cornice, and there are internal stacks. Behind the colonnade are square and clasping pilasters, with 4 French windows on the ground floor and 4 sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. To the left is a 2-storey extension in knapped flint, with a single-story forward addition glazed to the east, both featuring pilasters – the first-floor pilasters being of cast iron. To the right is a large, single-room addition dating from around 1809, with 3 bays, a gault brick construction, and a hipped slate roof. The south facade of this addition has 3 full-height windows on the ground floor, with large panes and glazing bars set between 4 narrow fluted pilasters, and a wide plain entablature above. The east return features 2 pairs of brick pilasters and an inserted tripartite casement window. An entrance is located on the east side, at the angle of the rear extension of 1832 and the single-room addition to the south facade, leading to a portico of 4 plain Doric columns supporting a flat roof and entablature, and a double leaved part-glazed door with panelled reveals. A semi-circular headed stair light is positioned above the rear wing.

The rear wing comprises 3 bays and 2 storeys, with sash windows featuring glazing bars. A fourth bay is 3 storeys high, with a recessed semi-circular headed panel spanning the ground and first floors and a semi-circular headed sash with glazing bars. A fifth bay is a 1936 addition in gault brick, with windows having stone surrounds – 2 to the ground floor and a sash to the first floor. A set-back single bay extension has cast iron gothic glazing bars to the first-floor window.

The irregular west facade, overlooking the churchyard, has a ground floor of pebble flint with gault brick dressings and cast iron glazing bars to a semi-circular fanlight and windows within a 2-storey addition to the right.

Inside, a steep, cantilevered, open-string, curved staircase has decorative carved tread ends, some turned balusters, and 4 fluted Ionic columns leading to a semi-circular landing, with a frieze below the balustrade and a frieze of classical leaf. The ceiling has recesses with egg and dart mouldings, a central rose with curved acanthus leaves, and heraldic glass depicting the Hardy family within a semi-circular headed stair window. The single-room addition to the south-east features a wide coffered coving to the ceiling, an egg and dart frieze above, and a wide anthemion frieze below, along with fluted Ionic pilasters. The white marble fireplaces have flanking lion monopeds copied from Hopes Household Furniture and Interior Decoration 1807.