The Old Hall With Boundary Wall To Front And Old Hall Cottage

SD 9867 CONISTONE WITH KILNSEY MAIN STREET (east side) Conistone

24/65 The Old Hall with boundary wall to front and Old Hall Cottage 10.9.54

GV II

House, now 2 houses and boundary wall. Main range dated 1657, enlarged and garden wall built late C18, divided into 2 houses 1941. Limestone rubble, rendered on front, gritstone dressings, graduated stone slate roof. Wall of coursed dressed limestone, gritstone gate piers. House of 2 storeys and 3 bays; lobby entry plan with central hall and parlour to left. Projecting rear gabled wings to bays 2 and 3 and a C19 rear wing to bay 1 (not of special interest). Facade: to right of bay 1 a 1½ storey gabled porch has half-glazed door in chamfered surround with lintel dated "R C 1657" and roll-moulded finial base to apex of gable. Board door with stone jambs and narrow corniced lintel to left of bay 3. 4-pane sashes throughout; ground floor window to bay 1 and 2 to bay 2 having mid C18 moulded stone architraves (the left window to bay 2 has narrower paired frames with a wooden mullion between). The bay 3 ground-floor and bays 2 and 3 first- floor windows have plain stone surrounds. 4 stacks: a large ashlar stack with moulded base and cornice to right gable, a more slender stack to left gable and between bays 2 and 3, both corniced, and a rebuilt banded stack opposite the porch entrance. 2 further stacks to rear facade: a semicircular external former stair turret and first floor stack against the central gable, pierced by an inserted 4-pane window to ground floor and having a corniced top similar to that on the front, right. A banded stack to left gable. 4-pane sashes in ornate surrounds, one with C20 frame. Left return: inserted window ground floor left; two 4-pane sashes to first floor. Lean-to addition recessed to left not of special interest. Right return: a small round-headed chamfered window to ground and first floor, left. Inserted 4-pane sash to first floor, far right. This gable has slightly projecting through stones, randomly placed. Interior: the narrow inner door opens onto the side of a large blocked stack; the central room has 2 boxed-in spine beams and a fine built-in cupboard in the partition wall to bay 3; it is round arched, with fielded panels and fluted architrave. Internal shutters to bays 1 and 2. Bay 3: the large fireplace. has a shallow chamfered arch with cast iron oven and grate, a set pot and remains of stone sink. 2 spine beams with pyramid stops to ceiling. The interior of the rear wings (Old Hall Cottage) not inspected at resurvey. The front range reported to have a massive king-post truss. Garden wall: approximately I metre high with ridged coping; a curved wall from the front left corner, broken by a narrow gateway opposite the porch, and continuing for approximately 8 metres to meet a field wall.

Listing NGR: SD9817667369