Linton Hall

LINTON MAIN STREET SD 9862-9962 (north side) 12/54 Linton Hall 10.9.54 GV II Farmhouse. Mid-late C17 with early C18 extension and alterations and C19 roof alterations to wing. Squared rubblestone, graduated stone slate roof. L-plan with 2-storey porch in angle between body of 2-storey house with 4 first-floor windows, and the projecting 2-storey with attic 2-bay gabled wing on right. Quoins. Board door to porch in heavily moulded architrave with cornice and semi-circular pediment; ball finials to outer ends of cornice; cross-window (lower mullion missing) in architrave and ogee gable above. The main body of the house has a C20 board door in chamfered quoined surround to left end, with a 3-light recessed chamfered mullion window to left again, the mullions restored; similar windows of 2 and 4 (one mullion missing) lights with hoodmoulds to centre and right; 4 small windows in recessed chamfered surrounds to first floor. Gabled wing to right of porch: paired 24-pane sashes to ground floor, in moulded architraves, paired sashes with glazing bars in deeper architraves to first floor; a cross window in architrave similar to first floor is set high in the gable. A projecting string course at first-floor level to porch and wing. Stone gutter brackets, shaped kneelers to wing and to left porch gable, eaves stack above gabled projection to left of centre on the main body of the house; a tall corniced stack to eaves of wing, right. Interior not inspected at resurvey. The entrance bay and wing were probably altered in the early C19 when the upper storey was added to the wing and a cross window moved into the shallow apex of the gable. The ogee gable to the porch was also possibly added at that time.

Listing NGR: SD9966062768