Weston Hall

House. Built in the late 17th century. It was enlarged in the 1770s and remodelled in the early 19th century in a Tudor style. A date of 1777 is inscribed on the left side. The front is rendered, the sides and rear are limestone ashlar, and the roof is tiled, with rendered stacks. It has an L-shaped layout. The north wing likely incorporates the main rooms of the original late 17th-century house, with a service wing to the southeast. The north front has two storeys and an attic, and is four bays wide, with a central doorway featuring an eared stone architrave, a moulded entablature with a keyblock, and a 20th-century half-glazed door. A porch with cast iron columns and a canopy stands before it. Double sash windows with rendered frames are situated on either side of the doorway. The outer bays have gables with finials, while the central bays have gabled half-dormers with sash windows. The left side, with three bays, includes a Victorian gabled stone porch with a four-centred arch in the left bay, and a sash window to the right, as well as a first-floor window. The inscription "1777/A.W." is located below the central window on the first floor. A lower wing, originally built in the late 17th century and altered in the 18th century, is covered with felt. The lower wing has two storeys and an attic, and two bays. It features an entrance in the left bay with a moulded stone surround and a 6-pane sash window in a plain stone frame to the right. Two-light windows with moulded stone frames and flat stone mullions are found on the first floor, alongside gabled attic half-dormers, likely altered in the 19th century. A coped gable end on the left has a stone stack. A lower, adjoining wing, built in the 17th century and remodelled and partly rebuilt in brick in the 19th century, has a two-light window with a flat stone mullion at the rear. Inside, the drawing room contains an early 18th-century carved wood fireplace, with volutes flanking the opening and cherub's heads in profile. The overmantel features swags of flowers and a pediment framing a portrait of Susanna Jennens, the house’s owner in the early 18th century, along with a carved doorcase with a frieze of laurel leaves. A ground floor room has an early 17th-century carved overmantel with blind arcading and caryatids, the opening surrounded by Delft tiles. The staircase, dating to approximately 1700 and altered in the 18th century, has twisted balusters, two to a tread. The fireplaces and doorcases in the drawing room are said to have been brought from Greatworth Manor, Northamptonshire in the 1770s, when that building was being demolished. Thomas Hiccocke became Lord of the Manor around 1662; his son, William, likely built Weston Hall around 1680–90. In the 19th century, it passed by marriage to the Sitwell family, and is frequently mentioned in their writings.