Aislaby Hall, Front Wall and Gate Piers

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AISLABY A 170 SE 7685-7785 (south-west side) 12/4 Aislaby Hall, front wall and gate piers (formerly 10.11.53 listed with Garden House facing road and walling between Hall and Garden House) GV II*

Hall. Mid C18. For Thomas Hayes, with wing of 1896 (on rainwater head) incorporating remains of earlier house; reroofed in C19; wing extended and porch on garden side added, in 1906. Front and plinth hammered grey sandstone ashlar; sides and rear coursed squared rubble; sandstone ashlar parapet. Extension partly squared sandstone, partly rendered; blue pantile roof. Central-stairhall plan, 2 rooms deep, with service wing added and later extended. 2-storey, 5-window front, with 2-storey extension to right, set back in 2 stages. Central door of 6 fielded panels beneath blind Gothick fanlight, in open-pedimented doorcase with fluted Doric pilasters. 12-pane sashes, with original glazing bars and stone sills, in architraves, that on first floor centre eared. Raised chamfered quoins. Raised bands at first-floor and eaves levels. Panelled parapet with moulded coping. End ridge stacks to hipped roof. First stage of extension has a keyed oculus with radial glazing bars on ground floor. Garden front: 2 storeys, 3 windows, with projecting central porch. 2-storey, 2-window wing to left, with further later left extension. Part-glazed panelled door in porch which repeats the Venetian form of the window above, with keyed rusticated arch on Doric pilasters: sash windows with Gothick head in centre. Other windows single-pane sashes converted to 12 panes by glazing bars fixed to frames; plain raised surrounds with triple keyblocks. Remaining features similar to street front. Wing and extension have single-pane sashes in raised surrounds with triple keyblocks. Beside porch a triangular lead water butt. Left return: 12-pane sash windows. Rainwater head and drainpipe with fancy clamps. Massive lead water butt, initialled TH and dated 1714. Interior: largely intact. Entrance hall: doors of 6 fielded panels in architraves with pulvinated friezes and broken pediments. Doric frieze. Plaster ceiling moulding of Hayes arms. Cut string cantilevered dogleg staircase, with urn-turned balusters, and ramped, wreathed moulded handrail on turned newel; wave-shaped tread ends. Venetian Ionic stair window with pulvinated frieze. Left front room has imported late C18 chimney-piece, eared door architrave, fielded dado panelling beneath rail with carved fret repeated on window architrave. Moulded cornice on shaped brackets. Right front room open to hall: partition removed in 1896. Broken pedimented doorcase in opposite wall probably re-set at that time. Eared fireplace architrave and dentilled cornice shelf, sunk dado panelling, panelled shutters and window seat. Panelled left rear room has finely carved marble chimney-piece with foliage enclosed in fretwork quatrefoils. Flanking early C19 elliptical- arched alcoves in reeded surrounds, dado rail with guilloche moulding, panelled shutters and window seat. Scroll-pedimented overdoor added. First floor: landing doors of 6 fielded panels, with later pedimented overdoors. Modillion cornice with enriched pulvinated frieze, possibly added; plaster ceiling rose. Bedrooms have old fireplaces and panelled cupboards, dado rails and good door and window woodwork. Wall and gate piers to front: piers cruciform on plan, approximately 2.25 metres high: chamfered-rusticated bands and moulded cornice, flat cap and ball finial, only one of which remains.

Listing NGR: SE7759485681

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