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Latitude: 54.3056 / 54°18'20"N
Longitude: -1.6247 / 1°37'29"W
OS Eastings: 424515
OS Northings: 490063
OS Grid: SE245900
Mapcode National: GBR KL3N.1B
Mapcode Global: WHC71.01LL
Entry Name: Crakehall Hall and Garden Walls
Listing Date: 22 August 1966
Last Amended: 29 January 1988
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1150922
English Heritage Legacy ID: 332318
Location: Crakehall, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, DL8
County: North Yorkshire
Civil Parish: Crakehall
Built-Up Area: Great Crakehall
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
CRAKEHALL THE GREEN
SE 2490-2590
(east side)
7/35 Crakehall Hall and garden
walls (formerly listed as
22.8.66 Crakenhall Hall (house,
stables and walls))
GV
II*
House and garden walls. Early C18. Coursed squared stone, ashlar
dressings, graduated stone slate roof. Symmetrical front. 3 storeys, 7
bays. Large 3-storey wing to rear. Ashlar plinth, chamfered quoins. 3
steps up to central half-glazed door and 3-pane overlight in late C18 stone
Doric porch, 2 pairs of columns on plinths, fluted frieze, cornice and
blocking course. All windows on first 2 floors are sashes with glazing
bars, those to second floor are 6-pane sashes. All windows have moulded
architraves with keystones, those to ground floor have continuous sill band.
Moulded eaves band. Hipped roof. Ridge stacks to rear. To each side of
house are brick quadrant walls, stone coped, ramped up at outer ends to
plain stone piers, with domed tops. To centre of each wall is a 4-panel
door, in rusticated stone architrave with double keystone. From the right-
hand pier a high stone rubble wall with flat stone coping, forms a boundary
to the east side of the green. Interior: entrance hall has dado rail with
Vitruvian scroll motif. Doors to rooms on each side have eared architraves
with pediments. Large open-well staircase with bulb and umbrella balusters.
Venetian stair window with Ionic columns. The right-hand front room has
Kent style overmantel with mirror surmounted by a broken pediment with shell
motif to centre. Early C18 fielded panelling, dado rail and dentilled
cornice.
Listing NGR: SE2451590063
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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