Description

ALDINGHAM
SD 27 SE
19/7 Aldingham Hall
A5087 (off east side)
8.3.85
G.V. II

Large house. 1846-50 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt for the Reverend John
Stonard; bequeathed to his butler and left unfinished. Later additions and
alterations. Rough-dressed squared, coursed rubble on moulded plinth; dressed
stone buttresses and details. Graduated slate roofs with moulded copings to
gables and parapets; tower embattled. Perpendicular style; service
courtyard to rear of house. Mainly 2 storeys with central 3-stage tower.
Symmetrical 5-bay garden elevation (1:3:1). Single-storey gabled porch to
north return has architraves with 4-centred heads; glazed inner door.
Garden elevation: Traceried windows under hoodmoulds; 1st floor windows have
central finials carried up above parapet. Wing to either side has canted bay
to ground floor between full-height polygonal clasping buttresses with
conical terminations. Stone paired octagonal chimneys. Interior: Panelled
doors with Perpendicular traceried decoration and 4-centred heads. Beamed
ceilings with foliate bosses; main ground-floor room has massive moulded
beams with pendant busses. 2 tall 4-centred arches separate hall from oak
well staircase in tower; very ornate closed-string stair has pierced
trilobe panels and embattled octagonal newels. Stair-well lit by grisaille
glass windows; painted wooden ceiling. Some original marble fireplace
surrounds.

Listing NGR: SD2824271048

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26378887

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)