L-shaped stone building with stone slab roofs, mainly it seems C15. The windows had originally mullions; the hall is now divided into 2 storeys. (1)
Due to the collapse of part of the roof ... the hall will probably be demolished. A T shaped building of 2 storeys built in rubble masonry with stone quoins. Much of this masonry has been patched with brick and covered by stucco... In the S gable is a fragment of a stone carving, of 2 figures holding a cloth in which is a third figure, in an attitude of devotion, looking up to rays of light indicating heaven. (2) (3)
[One of] the two most interesting domestic buildings in this parish [was] … Wansley Hall (the remains of an important house of the Wandesly family, apparently mostly C15), now derelict. (4)
Named 'Wansley Hall' (5).
The house is L-shaped having a NW wing running SW-NE with thick stone walls of mediaeval date, perhaps C13 or C14 (but there is no clear evidence of date). Running SE from the SW end of the earlier wing is a hall built c 1500…upper floor inserted in the C17. (6)
A total of 20 timber slice samples were collected from the building, 14 were obtained from dismantled timbers removed from the main building in May 1985 and 6 from timbers of a panel, removed in July 1987. It wasn’t possible to obtain a date for the samples due to low t-values and very short samples. (7)

The remains of Wansley Hall, thought to date from 1200. Originally the manor house, the Hall was last used as a farm holding and was finally abandoned in 1960, after a serious fall of masonry and roofing. The building is T-shaped in plan, with the northern section, arranged on an east-west axis, containing the remains of the original hall. The ruined hall stands 2 storeys high and is built of local sandstone. The remains of a 16th century fireback and an 18th century oven survive within. The southern section runs north-south and comprises a mix of architectural styles from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It is built partly of local sandstone and partly of brick.

A series of earthworks north and west of the hall suggest the location of buried remains and a geophysical survey has demonstrated the existence of further building remains south-west of the hall. A gully, interpreted as a hollow way, runs north of the site and a building platform and a well lie to the west. Documentary sources indicate that a private chapel once existed on, or adjacent to, the site of the Hall but its precise location is unknown. Listed and scheduled. (7)
Remains consolidated 1987-8, surveys carried out. See M2488 - Chapel Field, M2423- deserted village.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

OS card, plans, elevations, geophysical survey, Arch Office

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

doc 766

Data Held: Ground Photograph (Ground photograph). SNT2646.

RCHM, Arch Office

Listed buildings slides, 64 slides (Photograph). SNT2648.

NCC, Wansley Hall - proposed landscaping (Plan). SNT4504.

Graham Beaumont, 07/12/84, Wansley Hall - carpenters' marks. (Plan). SNT3725.

08/03/85, The Historical Wansley Hall (Published document). SNT3734.

Graham Beaumont, 15/05/85, Wansley Hall dendro core positions. (Plan). SNT4505.

NCC, 1984, Wansley Hall Consolidation Archive 1984-1988 (Graphic material). SNT5960.

1985, Wansley Hall (Plan). SNT3739.

'MHH', 24/08/88, Wansley Hall, Ground Floor Plan (Plan). SNT3738.

NCC, May 91, Wansley Hall (Plan). SNT3732.

October 84, Wansley Hall (Plan). SNT3740.

<1> Pevsner N, 1951, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire (Monograph). SNT49.

<2> Woodhouse WC, 1959, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1437.

<3> Skevington AB, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1272.

<4> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 306 (Monograph). SNT4.

<5> Sanderson G, 1835, 20 miles around Mansfield - 2 in (Map). SNT48.

<6> McDowall R & Black D, October 1961, Wansley Hall (RCHME building survey) (Unpublished document). SNT1573.

<7> Historic England, 2021, National Record of Historic Environment (Digital archive). SNT5271.