Hemingstone Hall And Attached Garden Walls On The South West Side

Hemingstone Hall is a former manor house dating to the early 17th century, likely around 1625, originally built for William Style. The house is constructed of red brick, largely encasing near-contemporary timber framing, suggesting an original timber-framed and plastered structure that was subsequently remodelled and enlarged in brick. Further alterations occurred in 1741, also in red brick, and are evidenced by bands of moulded brick at the first floor level and at the eaves cornice. The building features Dutch gables on two projecting cross-wings, with moulded brick copings, and parapetted side walls to the parlour wing. The roof is plain tiled, with two small dormers added around 1800. Original red brick chimneys remain; their bases are moulded and the shafts plain and oblong.

The hall range exhibits plain chamfered window openings, originally with small-pane casements, primarily of the 19th century. A pair of two-storey splayed bays, featuring shallow hipped roofs, are also 19th century, likely reconstructions. A good original two-storey brick entrance porch, with a Dutch gable, has a stucco doorway, featuring a segmental-headed opening recessed within a frame, flanked by stilted Tuscan pilasters, an entablature, and obelisk finials. The first-floor window is original, now with a 19th-century wooden casement; the inner doorway contains a moulded oak frame and an original panelled door.

Inside the hall, a moulded arched fireplace remains, along with extensive but altered wainscotting incorporating friezes and pilasters. One ground-floor room contains a ten-light wooden mullioned and transomed window, and a chamber features a good original fireplace with a carved overmantel, wainscotting, and a blocked ovolo-mullioned wooden window. The well staircase in the parlour wing has enriched square newels and turned balusters. Several rooms retain complete 17th and 18th century panelling and other joinery. Early wall paintings are believed to be concealed beneath some of this panelling.

In 1741, a block was added to the rear of the main range in a double-pile configuration. It is constructed of red brick and features a first-floor band and a parapet, along with small-pane sashes with cambered heads and thick glazing bars on the ground storey. A further cross-wing, also likely dating to around 1741, is situated to the right of the main range; it appears as red brick with small-pane sashes (thick glazing bars at ground storey), with timber-framed and plastered rear elevations.

To the south-west of the hall is a fully enclosed garden, bordered by a brick wall attached to the house. This wall measures approximately 50 meters long, 35 meters wide, and 3 meters high, constructed in English garden wall bond using red brick, likely from the 18th century but incorporating some earlier work.