Cleasby Hall

CLEASBY CLEASBY NZ 21 SW 4/7 Cleasby Hall 18.3.68 GV II

Manor house. Possibly C15, C16, C17, C18 and C19. Roughcast rubble, pantile roof. Irregular plan of hall, originally open, probably added onto earlier range to west, and with additions. 2 storeys, formerly 3 in older parts to west and south. Windows all have C20 frames, most are in exposed or hidden mullioned window surrounds. West front, formerly an internal wall: C20 6-panel door with reset C16 moulded jambs and large rounded corbels, carrying lintel, flanked by 16-pane sash windows. First floor offset, the wall reducing in thickness, with two 12-pane unequally hung sash windows. Above, to left, gable-end of hall range has 2-light double- chamfered window with replaced mullion. South front with projecting side wings: left wing, formerly with very large multi-light mullion-and-transom window, now with 3-light chamfered mullion window on ground floor, 16-pane sash window above and coped gable, external stack to right return. Centre range, ground floor from left: paired sash windows with glazing bars; 16- pane sash window. First floor: 3-light double-chamfered mullion window; 8- pane sash window. Large central ridge stack. Right wing: 16-pane sash windows on ground and first floors, 2-light double-chamfered mullion window above in coped gable; on each floor of left return a blocked 2-light double- chamfered mullion window. East front: left end blind, formerly with very large external stack, removed below eaves; to its right, two 16-pane sash windows on each floor, C20 six-panel door in ex situ rusticated quoined surround below 9-pane unequally hung sash window, and a 16-pane sash window on each floor. Stone slates at eaves. Ashlar coping. Interior: in south- east room, very large C17 fireplace with chamfered jambs, and segmental arch of even voussoirs with masons' marks and scar of a spit, the arch probably a replacement; doors of 6 fielded panels and fielded-panel shutters. In east wall of central hall, chamfered pointed-arched doorway, rebated for door opening eastwards, and probably moved from similar position in present (external) east wall, as fireplace in wall above has been damaged to accommodate head of arch, and matching base stones survive in east wall. In ground-floor south-west room, C16 or C17 Tudor-arched ashlar fireplace brought down from second floor. In east side of present west wall, one large rounded corbel surviving in situ, probably formerly on outside of building further west. Although very much altered, this is one of the oldest houses in the area.

Listing NGR: NZ2484813072