Description

TA 16 NW BOYNTON BOYNTON HALL

10/21 Boynton Hall 11.1.52 (Formerly listed as Hall and outbuildings) GV I

Country House. Late C16, extensively remodelled 1700, 1730 to a design by Lord Burlington, and by John Carr in 1767. Red brick with burnt brick diaper work and stone dressings, ashlar, slate roofs. Original house of H-shaped plan with extruded corners, later infilled to main front. Symmetrical elevation of 3 storeys, 7 window front. Chamfered stone plinth, stone quoins. Slightly projecting 5-window infill with a 3-window polygonal bay rising through full height of house. C20 central door with rectangular fanlight over, with glazing bars, in eared architrave: all windows in polygonal bay are sashes, with glazing bars, in eared architraves with stone sills. Polygonal bay is flanked by round-headed windows with glazing bars and radial glazing to heads in plain stone surrounds with stone sills. Flanking cells have sash windows with glazing bars in eared stone surrounds with stone sills. Moulded strings to first and second floors, moulded eaves cornice, axial stacks, all roofs hipped. Garden elevation is symmetrical; 3 storeys, 5 bays arranged in a receding front A-B-C-B-A. C19 double door to central bay with glazing bars in tripartite arrangement with side windows with glazing bars enclosed by Tuscan pilasters and entablature. Venetian window over with glazing bars and Doric pilasters and entablature. Diocletian window to second floor. Pediment with moulded cornice. All ground and first floor windows have sashes with glazing bars in eared architraves with stone sills: second floor has sashes with glazing bars in eared and shouldered architraves. Right return front is symmetrical, 3 storeys, 3 bays. Central double door under fanlight with glazing bars in rusticated surround with massive imposts and projecting key-block. Tuscan porch with columns in antis supporting entablature and balustrade over with turned balusters and moulded handrail. First floor has central Venetian window with Ionic pilasters and entablature and projecting key-block. Second floor has central oculus window with radial glazing in moulded surround. Ground and first floor windows have sashes with glazing bars in eared architraves with stone sills; second floor has sashes with glazing bars in eared and shouldered architraves. Many internal features of great richness survive, including a closed string staircase of c1700, twisted balusters, and ramped and moulded handrail in a stair-hall with contemporary bolection-moulded panelling and rich plaster ceiling; 2 fireplaces by William Kent, 1 with opposed consoles and frieze decorated with swags, the other with detail taken from the design by Inigo Jones for the screen in the chapel at Somerset House; a bolection-moulded marble fireplace and overmantel of c1700 in The Queen's Bedroom; and a further room with bolection-moulded panelling at the south end of the west wing. Country Life, CXVI (1954), pp 280, 356.

Listing NGR: TA1378167804

External Links

• Boynton Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17533706

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)