Hangingshaw House

Hangingshaw House is a two-story, gabled Jacobethan house dating from 1846. A small gabled wing to the east was demolished around 1980. The house is constructed from sandstone rubble, with squared and snecked stone, droved ashlar quoins, polished margins, and chamfered reveals. A base course is also present. Stone mullions feature throughout.

The west (entrance) elevation has three gabled bays. The central bay is recessed and contains a tripartite doorway with a fanlight, surrounded by carved beading and hollow mouldings. An ashlar porch with a depressed archway connects to the advanced outer bays, which have a roll-moulded surround, corniced blocking course, an armorial shield at the center, and smaller blank shields in the spandrels. A transomed and corniced window is above the porch. To the right, a taller bay projects, featuring a large, hoodmoulded tripartite window on the ground floor and a single window above. A corbelled stack with a panelled base sits at the apex. A single-story bay is advanced to the left, with a window.

The south elevation is five bays wide, with the central bay projecting and featuring a rectangular tripartite window at ground level with moulded blocking, a hoodmoulded window on the first floor, and a smaller attic window. An apex stack is detailed similarly to the west elevation. Two bays to the left are masked at ground level by a large, canted window with a blocking course, while the bays to the right have a hoodmoulded bipartite and single window on the ground floor. All first-floor bays flanking the center have windows that break the eaves within gabled dormerheads.

The east elevation shows the footprint of a former wing that has been demolished. An advanced bay is present at the outer left, blank and with corbelled stacks at the apex. Recessed M-gabled bays are to the center and right, containing a door, a large square fanlight, and a window above. A lean-to stove porch, with a bipartite window in the re-entrant angle of the advanced bay, is also present. The windows are mainly 12-pane sash and case, with varied glazing patterns. The roof is covered in grey slates, with gablet coped skews, bracketted skewputts, and stone finials. Rendered and coped diamond stacks are grouped in threes at intervals.

The interior features a flagstone hall, a swept timber staircase with a barley sugar balustrade, decorative classical timber chimneypieces, and plaster cornices. Panelled shutters decorate the rooms.

South of the house, on a steeply sloping site, are hanging terraces and garden walls. The terraces have possible origins in the 16th century. They are constructed of rubble and incorporate an upper retaining terrace with crinkle-crankle detail, along with buttresses. Balustraded walls, flanking the former steps leading down to the terraces, have rusticated dies and are currently in poor condition. A rendered curtain wall by the house has channelled ashlar piers and decorative finials. A keystoned, round-arched pedestrian gateway, with ashlar jambs and impost blocks, provides access.

A summer pavilion, dating from around 1930, is a classical, colonnaded four-bay loggia that closes the middle terrace. It features ashlar Doric columns, pilasters, and an entablature.