Old Hall Cottage Sexhow Hall

SEXHOW - NZ 40 NE 477062 5/115 Sexhow Hall and Old Hall Cottage 23.6.66 - II* Manor house. Late medieval with additions of C17, circa 1800 and later. Large squared stone in medieval crosswing, partly replaced in tooled sandstone and with upper courses of old brick, concealing a timber-framed first floor. Left wing, replacing the original hall c.1800, herringbone-tooled coursed sandstone with some brickwork behind and rendered left return. Attached Cl7 cottage sandstone rubble with dressings, right return rebuilt in red brick; and rear extensions rubble with rendered and and brick with stone quoins. Pantiled roof with stone copings, kneelers and stacks. In plan Sexhow Hall consists of the medieval cross wing with set back rebuilt hall block at left; Old Hall Cottage set further back at right with C17 and C18 rear extensions. Extruded stair wing between is part of Hall. Two storeys. 3-bay entrance front to Hall, right bay projecting and gabled. Modern glazed door in second bay. Sash windows with glazing bars. Projecting stack corbelled out at head height on right return; and small window in stair wing behind. 2-bay cottage has similar door and Yorkshire sashes in original openings with traces of removed mullions. High pitched roof with copings and kneelers of varied patterns; massive stack to right of crosswing. Similar windows on other elevations of both Hall and Cottage, the sashes in rear of crosswing set in lengthened openings with traces of mullions. Interior: Old features include timber framing with long diagonal braces and some painted studs in crosswing; also ornamental ceiling plaster of late C16 pattern in a bedroom. One stone doorway (of a group) with shallow shouldered arch of C14 type, possibly reconstructed; and a blocked stone fireplace of similar date. Heavy chamfered beams with tongued stops; and large stone corbels. Cross-wing roof truss of stout curved principals resting on tie and tenoned into arched lower collar. Collar-purlin and side purlins all clasped, between upper collar and rafters. C17 collar-beam truss with near-straight braces in cottage. C20 red brick extensions to left and rear of Hall and right of cottage are not of interest. Source: North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Building Study Group, Report No 361.

Listing NGR: NZ4766506175