Aldingham Hall

Aldingham Hall is a large house built between 1846 and 1850 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the Reverend John Stonard. It was bequeathed to his butler and left unfinished. The building features rough-dressed squared, coursed rubble on a moulded plinth, with dressed stone buttresses and decorative details. The roofs are covered with graduated slate and have moulded copings on the gables and parapets, while the tower is embattled. Designed in the Perpendicular style, the house has a service courtyard at the rear and is mainly two storeys tall, with a central three-stage tower. The symmetrical garden elevation has five bays arranged in a 1:3:1 pattern.

On the north side, there is a single-storey gabled porch with architraves featuring four-centred heads and a glazed inner door. The garden elevation showcases traceried windows beneath hoodmoulds, and the first-floor windows have central finials that extend above the parapet. Each wing has a canted bay on the ground floor, flanked by full-height polygonal clasping buttresses with conical terminations. The house is topped with stone paired octagonal chimneys.

Inside, the hall features panelled doors decorated with Perpendicular traceries and four-centred heads. The ceilings are beamed with foliate bosses, and the main ground-floor room has massive moulded beams with pendant bosses. Two tall four-centred arches separate the hall from the oak well staircase in the tower. This ornate closed-string staircase has pierced trilobe panels and embattled octagonal newels, with the stairwell illuminated by grisaille glass windows and a painted wooden ceiling. Some original marble fireplace surrounds remain.