Hauxwell Hall

Hauxwell Hall is a country house combining late 17th-century and mid-to-late 18th-century phases. The original late 17th-century building was commissioned by Sir Marmaduke Dalton. It is constructed in coursed sandstone, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs.

The hall is planned as a central three-storey block of the 17th-century phase, altered in the 18th century and flanked by two-storey ranges of 18th-century date.

The north front is built in coursed sandstone with ashlar dressings, arranged in a 2:3:3:2 bay pattern. The main three-storey, three-bay central range sits on an ashlar plinth. The entrance is marked by a part-glazed door below an overlight containing an ovoid panel of Elizabethan heraldic enamelled glass, framed by a chamfered quoined surround with a cornice supporting two ball finials. The first floor has 15-pane sash windows with 12-pane unequally-hung sashes. An ashlar parapet crowns the range, which is roofed with a hipped roof and has an ashlar stack between bays two and three. The two-storey ranges on either side feature ashlar plinths and quoins, sash windows with glazing bars, ashlar parapets, and hipped roofs.

The south garden front is in ashlar, with the left-hand block rendered. It is arranged in a 3:3:3 bay pattern. The central three-storey block projects forward with chamfered rusticated quoins and is the principal focus. Its entrance comprises part-glazed leaved doors below a two-light overlight with ovoid panels set in quarries, all contained within a pedimented Tuscan doorcase. Flanking the doors are sash windows with glazing bars in the lower sash and ovoid panels set in quarries in the upper sash. A band marks the first floor, where sashes with glazing bars appear. The second floor has six-pane sash windows. A cornice and parapet finish the block, with a corniced central stack. The two-storey flanking blocks repeat the cornice and parapet arrangement. The ground-floor windows of the left-hand block contain ovoid panels of Elizabethan heraldic enamelled glass. To the left, a recessed two-bay range of dressed stone features sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds, a parapet, and a firemark of the Yorkshire Insurance Company. Further left, a lower continuation has two sash windows below nine-pane unequally-hung sashes and a parapet.

The east front is in ashlar across four bays and continues the style of the south front. One first-floor sash has an upper ovoid panel.

The interior contains vaulted cellars beneath the central block and east range. A stone bearing the date "1672" is visible near the first doorway of the cellar. Within the cellar are two medieval doorways: one features an ogee chamfer with chamfer stops to the jambs and a bolection moulding to the lintel; the other has bolection mouldings to the jambs. The back stairs above the cellar entrance retain late 17th-century decorative turned balusters to the first floor and splat balusters to the second floor.

The entrance hall contains an open-well staircase of late 17th-century oak with decorative turned balusters, painted white. The east range contains the morning room, dated to around 1810, featuring a large fireplace, minstrels' gallery, and a ceiling divided into square panels with moulded ribs, possibly of 17th-century date. To the south is the drawing room of early-to-mid 18th-century date, fitted with a Vitruvian scroll above the fireplace, a fluted Ionic pedimented doorcase with bayleaf garland on the pulvinated frieze, eared panelling, and a fine modillion cornice. The dining room on the south side of the central block has a deep Doric frieze, possibly dating to around 1810. On the south side of the west wing, the library is lined with imported 17th-century panelling with an incised frieze and thick astragals. Above it on the first floor is the tapestry room, fitted with an 18th-century overmantel and cornice. The west wings have queen post roofs.