Roughcast façade to a much altered and extended double-pile house, with other walls of brick and stone. A C17 timber frame exists throughout, possibly adapted from an earlier building. (1)
Named 'Upper Hempshall' (2).
Country house. C16 and C17, altered early C19 and mid C20. (3)
Tree-ring analys has concluded that the hall was built in the late C15 with a very early C18 timber-framed addition. It does contain one timber, the fireplace bressummer, that may have been felled in the late C16/early C17. (4)
Originally a 3 bay house on the usual medieval pattern of solar, open hall, cross-passage and service bay. But built with a view to insertion of a second floor into the open hall (which happen 3 years later) with windows placed at first floor level. The cross passage appears to have been incorporated into the service bay rather than the hall bay. The kitchen was incorporated into the service bay with a smoke bay being created on the end of the original building as part of a 1500s extension. At this time a floor was inserted into the hall and at a later date a large brick chimney was constructed within the smoke bay. There was originally a wing at the north side of the solar but this has since been replaced by a later block (dated to 1702). In the C19 various other additions were made. Hempshill Hall, coming right at the end of this period that is distinguished by open hall houses, appears to have been a little different in that the kitchen seems to have been an integral part of the house from the beginning and also that the screens passage was effectively in the service area, not the hall. It also seems that although the house was originally built as an open hall but that the frame was designed with the expectation that the hall and service bays would be floored in at some time in the near future, and to this end, the “open hall” was built with windows that were suitable for a later “floored-in” arrangement. Restoration uncovered stone fireplaces (5)
See M2079 for deserted village.

Listed buildings slides, (Photograph). SNT2648.

Graham Beaumont, september 20, Hempshill Hall (Plan). SNT4543.

<1> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed., p 281 (Monograph). SNT4.

<1> Notts CC, 2000-2004, Buildings at Risk Survey III (Unpublished document). SNT2033.

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

<2> Mordan J, 2007, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT2031.

<3> DOE, Listed Building Description (Published document). SNT228.

<3> Thoroton Society, 1942, TTS, p 72 (Published document). SNT359.

<4> Howard R, 2011, Dendro Report, Hempshill Hall (Unpublished document). SNT2032.

<5> Richard Hunt, 2014, An account of the history and restoration of Hempshill Hall, Nuthall (Unpublished document). SNT4753.