Eastoft Hall

Details

SE 81 NW EASTOFT LUDDINGTON ROAD (north side)

4/9 Eastoft Hall

II

House. Mid C18 or earlier, extended and refronted in mid C19. Brick, with chamfered rusticated stucco to south and west sides of main range, rough render to east side, colour-washed to rear wing. Stucco and ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof. L-shaped on plan: double-depth main range with 2-room, central entrance-hall south and west fronts, the earlier rectangular 3-room range forming the 2 east rooms and kitchen wing to rear right. South front: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Moulded brick plinth. Entrance has 2 stone steps to stucco doorcase with pilasters carrying entablature and hood. Panelled door beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight in stepped reveal. 4-pane sash to left, tripartite sash to right with glazing bars. Entablature with moulded cornice forming first-floor band. 4-pane first- floor sashes. All windows with sills beneath channelled cambered arches. Corbelled moulded brick eaves cornice with moulded ashlar corner pieces. Double-span hipped roof. Side wall stack to right. Left return forms secondary west garden front: 3 bays, symmetrical. Plinth, first-floor band and eaves cornice similar to south front. Step to half-glazed panelled door with engraved glass, beneath moulded lintel and plain overlight. 4-pane ground-floor sashes with sills beneath keyed stucco arches. First floor: tall central round-headed stair window with margin lights beneath channelled and keyed stucco arch, flanked by 4-pane sashes in similar surrounds to those of ground floor. Hipped roof with pair of C20 rebuilt ridge stacks. Lower 2-storey kitchen wing set back to left has 6-fielded-panel door, small 8-pane first-floor sliding sash, lateral stack and tumbled-in brick to raised left gable. Right return (east side): main range, ground floor, has 12-pane sash to left, 2-light sash with glazing bars to right; C19 3-light mullioned and transomed window to right wing. First-floor band and stepped -in upper storey to main range with three 4-pane sashes; small 8-pane first- floor sliding sash to wing. Interior. Stairhall has small circular opening to upper hall with moulded surround, open-well staircase with pulvinated string, ornate splat balustrade and chamfered newel posts with carved finials; upper hall has similar balustrade to circular well, a pair of basket-arched openings with corbelled archivolts, moulded ceiling cornice and circular stair light above the well with radial glazing bars in moulded surround. Moulded cornices to entrance lobby, halls and all main rooms; pilastered red marble chimney-piece to south-west room, Classical-style columned wooden chimney-piece and overmantel to south-east room; original C18 axial stack survives on east side, with C19 keyed round-arched grey marble chimney-piece to north-east room. Panelled doors and window shutters in architraves throughout, those to east rooms and kitchen fielded- panelled. The stairhall details have similarities with those at The Old Vicarage, High Street, Luddington (qv) and The Old Vicarage, Manor Road, Adlingfleet, Twin Rivers parish (qv). A Hall is shown in this position on Jeffrey's Map of Yorkshire 1775.

Listing NGR: SE8064016236

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