Gungrog Hall

Gungrog Hall is an 18th-century house with substantial alterations dating to around 1860, and subsequently divided into two dwellings around 1950. The house’s plan suggests possible earlier origins, with a central hall flanked by gabled wings. Around 1860, the wings were raised, and a central, full-height, canted wing was added between them. The interior was extensively reordered at this time, incorporating panelling and other architectural features from Sir Edward Waldo's London house, which was demolished in 1861. Some of this panelling was later moved to Barclays Bank on the same site and returned around 1950.

The exterior is brick with stone dressings, including angle quoins, topped by slate roofs with axial and side wall stacks. The original 18th-century wings and a linking range at the rear remain, though the wings were extended upward during the 1860 remodelling. The main east-facing elevation of the wings is symmetrical, with each wing featuring two four-pane sash windows on each floor, set within flat-arched stone heads, and a single similar window in the gable apex. The rear elevation has twelve-pane sash windows, some with flat-arched, gauged brick heads. The rough brickwork at the rear angle of the south wing suggests a possible earlier, more extensive building footprint. The central wing added around 1860 is canted, with tall four-pane sash windows under triangular-headed stone lintels. A moulded stone cornice is present, though the blocking course is a later replacement. A lower wing to the north also appears to date from around 1860 and has a catslide dormer with arched window heads, but retains one small window with a finely gauged brick head.

The interior’s main interest lies in the quality of the panelling introduced around 1860. The stair hall has early 18th-century fielded panelling, including lozenge panels and reeded pilasters, with deep recessed panels above the fireplace. The staircase itself has moulded tread ends in an 18th-century style, but the chamfered balusters and heavy newel posts suggest a date of around 1860. The dining room is fully panelled with 18th-century features: high raised panels separated by a dado rail, and a moulded cornice. Reeded pilasters flank a bolection-moulded fireplace, which includes a high-relief panel depicting Saint Christopher, along with carved figures supporting the scrolled decoration of the overmantle. The drawing room, originally panelled around 1860, lost its panelling around 1850, but it retains its original ribbed panelled ceiling with an undercut central boss of oak leaves.

The house is historically significant as an 18th-century building substantially altered in the mid-19th century and of exceptional architectural interest due to the quality of its interior fittings.