Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Aislaby Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17540316

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