Tetley Hall Lincolnshire, England

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SE 71 SE CROWLE WHARF ROAD (south-west side, off) Tetley 3/53 Tetley Hall

GV II

House and adjoining ranges. Main range of 1829-39 for Henry Lister Maw, courtyard range to right of mid - late C18 for George Stovin (later Lister). Red-brown brick. Welsh slate roof to main range, pantile roof to courtyard range. Main range T shaped on plan: 2-room, central entrance-hall south front with stairhall and small study to rear. Small courtyard to east enclosed by screen wall to south and outbuildings to east; altered range to north side is not of special interest. Main range, south front: 2 storeys, 4 bays; asymmetrical. Stucco plinth. Entrance to third bay has step to large flush-panelled double doors and overlight with margin lights in reveal beneath rubbed-brick cambered arch. Pair of French windows to left with margin lights, full-height segmental bow to right with full-length ground- floor tripartite sash, and shorter first-floor tripartite sash with glazing bars; 12-pane first-floor sashes to left. All windows with sills and rubbed-brick cambered arches. Stepped brick eaves band. Deep eaves. Hipped roof. Central and side wall stacks with chamfered shafts and stone coping. Left return, rear wing, has 16-pane sashes and panelled cellar door beneath window with margin lights. Rear has tall round-headed stair-window with margin lights, and 16-pane sashes. Courtyard range: coped screen wall adjoining to right, single-storey height, has blocked entrance with rubbed- brick segmental arch with chamfered ashlar keystone and quoins to top, base and centre of jambs; east range adjoining at right angles has single-storey outhouse with segmental-arched door to left, dentilled brick eaves cornice and tumbled-in brick to gables with stone coping and shaped kneelers. Short section of stone-coped wall to right, adjoining north range, has segmental- arched entrance with ashlar dressings similar to south screen wall. Courtyard contains water pump with relief figure and date 1767. Interior of main range largely unaltered. Entrance lobby with half-glazed panelled door and sidelights with glazing bars, hall with moulded cornice, round-arched opening to stairhall; open-well cantilevered staircase (with re-set panelling below) with wreathed handrail, fluted balusters and profiled cheek-pieces; round-arched openings to first-floor, moulded cornice to upper hall. Large drawing room, ground floor left, has plasterwork acanthus ceiling rose with anthemion border, moulded cornice and frieze; fine composition chimney-piece with detached fluted columns, acanthus capitals, frieze with central panel bearing figure in oval surround flanked by figures and festoons, moulded cornice, moulded grey marble slip and inserted late C19 projecting tiled fireplace from Sprotborough Hall. Dining room, ground floor right, has plasterwork grapevine frieze, moulded cornice and pilastered black marble chimney-piece with small raised shield to frieze. Moulded cornice to rear study. Main rooms have panelled window shutters and 6-panelled doors in pedimented architraves. Not fully investigated. The earlier courtyard range is similar to the stable/granary ranges to the south (qv), one of which bears wrought-iron letters "G S" and incomplete date "178-". W Read, History of the Isle of Axholme, 1858, p 256.

Listing NGR: SE7758911765