SLADE HOOTON HALL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1151845
Date first listed: 29-Mar-1968
Statutory Address: SLADE HOOTON HALL
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Location
Statutory Address: SLADE HOOTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish: Laughton-en-le-Morthen
National Grid Reference: SK 52420 89240
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History
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Details
This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/02/2016
SK 58 NW,
7/124
LAUGHTON-EN-LE-MORTHEN,
SLADE HOOTON,
Slade Hooton Hall
(Parish formerly listed as: Thurcroft)
29.03.68
GV
II*
Small country house. Dated 1698. For John Mirfin. Coursed, squared
limestone, Cornish slate roof. 2-storey and attics, 5 x 4 bays. Plinth,
chamfered quoin strips. Central 6-panel door with 2-pane overlight in
rusticated panel with shouldered and eared architrave, frieze panel with date
and monogram (?); enriched cornice with egg-and-dart and acanthus motifs.
Flanking sashes with glazing bars in raised ashlar surrounds.
1st floor: band; windows as ground floor, central window with sunken-panelled
apron and architrave in panel as door. Acanthus-enriched cornice breaks
forward over quoinstrips and beneath segmental pediment of central window
having mask in tympanum. Hipped roof with side-facing dormers and brick-
quoined side-ridge stacks of later date. Rear: two 2-light cellar windows in
plinth; doorway to left of centre in raised ashlar surround with eared
moulding, two cross windows to ground floor; double-transomed stair window
flanked by sashes with glazing bars.
Interior: doorway leads into front-right room with coving; front-left room
with bolection-moulded fireplace, fielded wall panels and enriched cornice
now decorated with C20 trompe-d'oeil work; kitchen to rear right has large,
arched fireplace; rear-left room with bolection-moulded fireplace and fielded
panelling. Hall has bolection-moulded door architraves and staircase with
alternating spiral and plain square balusters, shaped handrail.
1st floor: stair landing has canvas panels in relief laurel-leaf borders;
bolection-moulded fireplace to 1st floor front-left; raised architraved
panels to room on front-right. Splat-balustered attic stair. Earliest
classically-designed house of the region. A sketch by Samuel Buck includes
the gatepiers and stable to rear (q.v.).
Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook, c1720, facsimile edition 1979, Wakefield
Historical Society.
Listing NGR: SK5242089240
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 335999
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, I, Samuel Bucks Yorkshire Sketch Book, (1979)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing