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Name of Building: Remains of Wansley Hall
Address: Wansley Hill (South Side), Bagthorpe
Grade of Building: II
Date of Listing: 12/01/1989
Grid Reference: SK 45 SE
Group Value: Yes
Serial No: 5/73

Ruined remains of medieval manor house C13, C16 late, C17 and early C18, C19.
Coursed and squared rubble, dressed stone and brick, with remains of internal timber
framing. Partial chamfered plinth, ashlar quoins and dressings. Remains of square
central stack and side wall stack, brick. 2 storeys, 3 unequal bays. L-plan, former hall on
east-west axis, with later projecting wing to south. North front has 2 square openings, that
to right blocked. Above 2, 3 light keeled mullioned windows. East side has remains of
projecting gable to right. To left doorway and small casement. To their right remains of
mullioned casement. To right again, broken opening and early C19 door with flat hood.
To right again, a casement on each floor. West side has projecting wing to left, with
square opening in plinth. To its right, basement level doorway. Rear wing, to right has 2
square openings. Above, to left, a window.

Interior has transverse close studded wall with still and span beams. Remains of C16
herring bone brick fireback on south wall. North wall has window opening with timber
lintel. Rear wind has C19 ashlar fireplace. In east brick opening with timber lintel. Rear
wing has C19 ashlare fireplace. In east brick wall the remains of 3 C17 plain stone
mullioned windows with drip moulds survive plush an early C28 doorway. Late C18 plank
door. West wall has a re-set corbel. This building incorporates the remains of the C13
first floor hall house build for the de Wandeslie family, Owned by the Gratton family from
1320, and by the mid C16 by the Middleton family. Passed by marriage to the Howitt
family in the early C17 and sold by them before 1660. The building was a farmhouse in
the C19 and was finally abandoned in 1960. Now a roofless ruin.
Consolidated 1987.