Gestingthorpe Hall (EHER 29657)

17th century house with features of early 17th century date. Additions and alterations include early 18th century red brick facing, with rear extensions about 1890 and 1910. Red tiled roofs left and right. Two storeys and attics. Three storeyed pedimented central bay breaks forward.

NRHE data transfer: Over Hall [NAT]. <1> Gestingthorpe Hall. House of the 17th century or earlier with later additions and alterations including early 18th century red brick facing. About 1890 and 1910 rear extensions. The home of Captain Oates of the Scott Antarctic Expedition 1910. RCHM 4. Grade II*. <2> Over Hall, house and pigeon-house, 200 yards north-west of the church. The house was entirely re-faced with red brick and partly rebuilt in the 18th century, but the north end possibly incorporates remains of a building of early 17th century date. Inside the building, on the ground floor, a fireplace in the central chimney-stack has an overmantel not in situ, of about 1625, and of three bays divided be fluted pilasters supporting an enriched entablature; the central bay has a round-headed carved panel and the side bays have rectangular panels with frames of later date. A room at the north end of the house is lined with panelling, also of about 1625. The pigeon-house is timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. It is of mid 17th century date, but has modern rough-cast and imitation half-timbering. The roof is pyramidal and has four little gables, one on each side, all with original barge-boards carved with vine and other ornament; in addition, on the east side there is a gabled dormer with similar barge-boards. On the west side is an original window with a moulded frame, and a lintel carved with the initials I.A.E. probably for I and A Elliston. Condition - of house and pigeon-house, good. <3> See also: <4> - <6>