Ganton Hall

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1466-/6/10000 SE 97 NE

GANTON Ganton Hall

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Country House. c1860. Red brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with raised gables and many tall brick stacks. Chamfered plinth, and flush ashlar quoins. Narrow first floor band and moulded eaves band. 2 Storey plus attics. H plan. South east front, 5 bays. Recessed centre with 3 plain sashes on both floors, with ashlar surrounds. Eitherside are single 2 storey canted bay windows also with plain sashes and ashlar surrounds, above these bays are curved gables with ashlar coping and single smaller plain sashes. South west front, 3 bays. To the left a 2 storey canted bay window, to the right an ashlar square bay window with strap-work parapet, and above 2 plain sashes. North west entrance front, 5 irregular bays. Recessed centre has to right a projecting ashlar porch, with coupled Doric columns supporting an entablature and plain parapet, with a large door and narrow flanking lights. To the left a single plain sash, and above a tripartite sash and a single plain sash. The projecting bay to the right has a single plain sash to both floors, with a smaller sash above in the curved gable. The projecting left bay is obscured by the lower service wing, and has 2 narrow sashes on the ground floor, and a small sash above with another sash in the curved gable. The service wing is lower, single storey plus attic. South west front, has to the right a curved link containing a doorway with 4 panel door and overlight, and above an ashlar panel and a gabled dormer window. To the left 3 plain sashes, with above 3 through-eaves dormers with gabled tops. Beyond a projecting bay with a single sash to both floors, under a curved gable. The north west front, 5 bays with a slightly projecting centre with large gable. 5 plain sashes with above central sash flanked by 2 through-eaves dormers. Interior: Main reception rooms have elaborate coving, and good quality marble fireplaces with mirrored overmantles. Very fine wooden staircase with turned balusters and square newels with finials. Laundry retains its original stove and drying shelves.

Listing NGR: SE9920077062