| Description | Eastwood Old Hall and Attached Barn, Stansfield (SD 96214 25829). Early to mid 18th century double pile house.
'House. Mid C18. Watershot masonry, ashlar quoins, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Double pile on plan. All are double chamfered mullioned windows. 2 room front. 8 light window with king mullion. Over is 9 light window with king mullion. Slightly off centre door with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze and triangular pediment, deeply moulded, with sunken tympanum. Over is window with shouldered architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice and raised keystone. 4 light window with same over. Cornice. Coped gables with moulded kneelers. 2 stacks to gable ends. Barn set back from main range. Return wall of house has elliptical window at eaves level. Barn has segmental arch on skewbacks, composite jambs with tie stone. Keystone inscribed 'TME 1767' for Thomas Manley Eastwood. Right hand mistal doorway has tie stones and chamfered surround. Over arch is former Venetian window broken through to form pitching door. Elliptical ventilator over. Under eaves to left hand end is 4 light chamfered window (solid) to former servants quarter. Left hand return wall of 3 storeys. All are chamfered mullioned windows. That to ground floor of 4 lights inscribed DAIRY. 5 light window to lst floor. 3 light window to 2nd floor. Columbarium to apex. Moulded copings. Rear of barn has semi circular arched doorway with tie stones. Rear of house built into hillside and has entry to lst floor, doorway with tie stones (blocked) and long 12 light chamfered mullioned window. This rear room may have been a shop connected with textile manufacture. 2 stacks to gables'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 22/02/1984. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1279454. Website accessed 09/08/2013).
Eastwood Old Hall was the subject of an archaeological assessment by Colum Giles in 1979 as part of the WYAS/RCHME Rural Houses Survey. There are two sets of photographs in WYAAS archives, both attributed to Column Giles and the Rural Houses Survey (Giles, C. 1979 and Giles, C. 1983). The fieldwork report is transcribed below:
'This is a stone house of the early to mid 18th century, with an attached barn added in 1767. The house is of two and a half storeys and is double pile on plan, all the rooms being contained within a simple rectangle.
The south front of the house is the main facade. It has a central entry. The door has an elaborate surround, its style departing markedly from the traditional local form. The surround is eared, and there is a pulvinated frieze beneath the triangular pediment. The window over the door again emphasises the centre of the front, with a similar surround. The stonework is in watershot masonry.
The door leads into a passage running to the rear. The passage has been taken out of the main room and originally the door opened directly into this room. The room is featureless, but must have been the hall. To the east is a small heated parlour, with a simple decorative plaster ceiling.
The rear of the house has three rooms. The western and central rooms are open to light only on the west side, for they are cut deeply into the hillside which rises steeply to the north. This makes them ideal for use as dairy and pantry, and the heavy vaulted roofs emphasise the need to provide cool storage space. The window in the west wall has the word 'Dairy' painted on the lintel. The eastern room is lighter, the bank being cut away here to give light and access to the exterior. This room was probably always the kitchen. |