More information : [SK 3582 6282] Eastwood Hall [NR] (In Ruins) (NAT). (1)
Eastwood Hall once known as New Hall, was formed from a sub-infeudation of the original manor of Ashover, sometime after the 13th c. It is mentioned in 1337. Destroyed in the Civil War, it is now a ruin. (2) Another authority identified it with one of the two manors at Ashover mentioned in Domesday. Sir Osbert Sitwell claimed that an arch on the east side and part of the interior were 12th c. with Early English windows and masonry in the tower but the author had not seen any Norman work (3). There is early 16th c. work on the north side of the building and a Jacobean window in the north wall. The most recent authority states that the ruins are of an Elizabethan and older house. (2-4)
The ruins of Eastwood Hall are in poor condition and overgrown by ivy and shrubs. They are of 16th c. date with original entrances, mullioned and transomed windows, fireplaces, etc.
A cottage, of reused material, built against the west side of
the ruin, is known as Eastwood Hall Cottage. (a).
No evidence of earlier work was seen in the ruins. See GP's AO/60/113/2 - East side of ruins from the south-east: AO/60/113/3 - North side from the north; AO/60/113/4 - Ruins from the
south-west. (5)
No change. (6)
Eastwood Hall, now ruinous, was a large fortified manor house of rubble construction, standing approximately five storeys high. The house is apparently Elizabethan and earlier, but little is known about it except that it was the seat of the Reresby family.
Grade 2. (7)
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