Crakehall Hall And Garden Walls

CRAKEHALL THE GREEN SE 2490-2590 (east side) 7/35 Crakehall Hall and garden walls (formerly listed as 22.8.66 Crakenhall Hall (house, stables and walls)) GV II* House and garden walls. Early C18. Coursed squared stone, ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof. Symmetrical front. 3 storeys, 7 bays. Large 3-storey wing to rear. Ashlar plinth, chamfered quoins. 3 steps up to central half-glazed door and 3-pane overlight in late C18 stone Doric porch, 2 pairs of columns on plinths, fluted frieze, cornice and blocking course. All windows on first 2 floors are sashes with glazing bars, those to second floor are 6-pane sashes. All windows have moulded architraves with keystones, those to ground floor have continuous sill band. Moulded eaves band. Hipped roof. Ridge stacks to rear. To each side of house are brick quadrant walls, stone coped, ramped up at outer ends to plain stone piers, with domed tops. To centre of each wall is a 4-panel door, in rusticated stone architrave with double keystone. From the right- hand pier a high stone rubble wall with flat stone coping, forms a boundary to the east side of the green. Interior: entrance hall has dado rail with Vitruvian scroll motif. Doors to rooms on each side have eared architraves with pediments. Large open-well staircase with bulb and umbrella balusters. Venetian stair window with Ionic columns. The right-hand front room has Kent style overmantel with mirror surmounted by a broken pediment with shell motif to centre. Early C18 fielded panelling, dado rail and dentilled cornice.

Listing NGR: SE2451590063