Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/11/2016

TA 14 NE,
TA 24 NW,
6/29,
11/29

HORNSEA,
MARKET PLACE (east side)
The Old Hall.

22.4.65

II

House. Early C17. Red brick on cobble footings, plain tile roof. Central
direct entry to hall range with projecting cross wings; lower wing to left,
late C19 glasshouse to right. Main range of two storeys and attics, 3 bays;
lower wing to left of 2 storeys, 2 bays. Stepped brick plinth: quarter-
round moulded plinth to side wall of right cross-wing. Hall range has
central 4-panel door under elliptical head, with canopy on scrolled brackets
with heart motif, flanked by cross-mullion windows with leaded lights and
sills under segmental gauged brick heads. Cross-wings have early C20 square
bays each with two cross-mullion windows with leaded lights, sills, and
segmental gauged brick heads, and low ramped coped parapet. First floor:
elliptical-headed niche with imposts, projecting keyblock, and apron,
containing statue of an Amazon, over door, flanked by cross-mullion windows with
leaded lights, sills, and segmental gauged brick arches. Band to right
cross-wing. Two similar windows, and one casement to the attic storey, to
each cross-wing. Dentilled brick eaves cornice to hall range; shaped gables
with iron ties to cross-wings. Axial stacks. Lower wing to right has
casements with leaded lights throughout, all with sills under segmental
gauged brick heads. First floor band, dentilled brick eaves cornice. End
stack, shaped gable. Interior: several original features survive including
the hall fireplace which has a rubbed brick elliptical arch, decorated with
a wave-moulded chamfer; the room to the right cross-wing ground floor which
is filled with bolection-moulded panelling and has a fireplace with a
pilastered overmantel, and a large number of C17 and C18 doors. A cupboard
in the hall has a 3-panel bolection moulded door on its original hinges
which is very similar to that surviving as the pantry door to the White
House, Southgate, in the same parish. (q.v.)

Listing NGR: TA1999447695

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541523

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Recommended Books

• 
  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)