Swanton Abbot Hall

Swanton Abbot Hall is a house built in the early 19th century, with a range dating back to around 1600 at the rear and a wing added in 1858. The building features rendered brick and brick construction, with black pantile and slate roofs. The main west facade is two storeys high with an attic, comprising five bays. It is rendered and has additions on both the left and right sides. The ground floor showcases banded rustication, 19th-century sash windows, and a platband. The central three bays are flanked by pilasters with a central fillet, topped with an arched segmental pediment that includes an attic light. The upper windows on the left and right have flat pediments on consoles, while the central upper window features a triangular pediment also on consoles. The steeply pitched black pantile roof has two polygonal stacks on either gable.

To the left, there is a narrow return range of two storeys and five bays, featuring a central porch supported by a pair of Doric columns in antis, with a flat-gabled parapet and niches on either side of the doorway. The porch has a 20th-century glazed door, and the range includes sash windows and a lead roof. To the right of the main facade, the 1858 addition has one bay, also with banded rustication but at a slightly higher level, sash windows, and a canted bay to the south with tripartite sashes. The upper floor of this bay has a flat pediment with consoles, and the roof is slate.

The range from around 1600 is at right angles to the main facade, two storeys high with two bays, featuring 19th-century mullioned windows. The crow-stepped gable end has a pedimented opening now fitted with a 19th-century mullioned and transomed window in the attic, and there is evidence of pediments on the first-floor openings as well. A platband runs between the first and attic storeys. There is also a further service range from around 1800, which is of no special interest.

Inside, the rear range has roll mouldings on the ground floor beams, some with double jewel stops. The mid-19th-century staircase features cast iron balusters, and there is vine-trail detail on the stairwell reveal and the hall cornice. The park surrounding the hall was laid out around 1710, with an avenue that aligns with the central window in the main facade. The hall is associated with James Grigor's Eastern Arboretum from 1841.