Description

LEASINGHAM CAPTAIN'S HILL TF 04 NE (west side) 8/38 Leasingham Hall 23.11.51 (formerly listed as The Hall) GV II Small country house, now 6 flats. C17, C18, remodelled 1836 with C20 alte- rations. Coursed limestone rubble and brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. A single lateral, 2 gable and 3 ridge moulded ashlar stacks. Ashlar coped gables with kneelers, some with finials. Flush ashlar quoins. Chamfered ashlar plinth. Chamfered first floor band. Ashlar corbels to the eaves. Irregular plan. East, entrance front, 3 bay, 2 storey with central projecting porch with diagonal buttresses, a chamfered eaves band and a coped parapet which continues over the shallow gable which contains a shield. The opening has a chamfered four- centred arch, inscribed "1836". The inner doorway also has a chamfered four- centred arched surround, with double partially glazed doors, with side lights and an overlight. To the left a 2 light chamfered mullion window with hood, and to the right a slightly projecting external stack, which bears an ashlar shield bearing the Myddlton arms. Above 2, 2 light chamfered mullion windows with hoods. South front, 2 bays, 2 storey plus attic. To the left an ashlar canted bay window surmounted by coped battlements, with glazing bar casements, and to the right a single 3 light chamfered mullion casement with hood. Above 2, 2 light chamfered mullion casements with hoods. Above again to the right a small single flat headed lancet with a hood. West front, 3 bays, 2 storey plus attic. Between each bay are single buttresses with set offs. To the right a pair of cross casement double doors with a hood, in the centre a doorway with C20 door, and to the left a single glazing bar sash under a segment head. Above 2 similar sashes, and above again 2 gabled dormers with 2 light casements, to the right in the gable a small flat headed lancet with hood. To the west a tall 2½ storey, 2 bay wing with a lower 2 storey flat topped linking block. This link has on the south a doorway with a 6 panel door with overlight under a segment head with ashlar keystone. To the right a small 2 light chamfered mullion window with a flat head. Above a single glazing bar sash with segment head and keystone. The west wall of this link has a single similar sash to each floor. The link is topped with an ornate wooden balustrade. The south wall of the west wing has a single glazing bar sash with segment head and key- stone on the first floor and above a small glazing bar sash and a 2 light case- ment. The west gable wall has 2 oval windows on the upper floor, with moulded ashlar surrounds with scroll keystones, these surrounds are heavily weathered and are probably early C18 in date, re-sited in thie present position c1836. To the rear a single storey range of garages. This house was burnt in the early C19, and repaired and partly rebuilt in 1836.

Listing NGR: TF0565948381

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