Description

SE 81 NW GARTHORPE AND HIGH STREET FOCKERBY (west side)

4/11 Garthorpe Hall (formerly listed as The 1.3.67 Hall, Garthorpe Parish)

GV II

House. c1680 with later alterations and rear additions. Renovations of c1980. Red brick, partly in English bond; colour-washed, partly-rendered to gable ends. Pantile roof. Plan: 3-rooms with lobby entry to left of centre, and central rear stair turret flanked by later outshuts. 2 storeys with attic, 7 bays, with 4 first-floor windows (3 blocked). Deep plinth capped with ovolo and cavetto moulded bricks. Entrance bay breaks forward, with wide 6-fielded-panel door beneath 5-pane overlight in damaged early C20 pilastered doorcase beneath partly-restored original floating pediment with ovolo, cavetto and cyma recta moulded bricks. Three C18 12-pane sashes to left, 2 similar 12-pane sashes and two C19 lengthened 4-pane sashes to right, all in flush wood surrounds beneath flat arches. First floor: two 12-pane sashes to left, 2 similar sashes and 2 blocked windows to right. Corbelled cornice of cavetto-moulded bricks. Ridge stack, cross-shaped on plan. Right return has single C19 4-pane sashes to ground and first floors. 12-pane sliding sash to attic of left return. Rear has irregular fenestration with C20 casements and sliding sashes, cogged brick eaves cornice to main range. Interior. Ground-floor left room has reused chamfered spine beam with tongue stops; inglenook fireplace with chamfered Tudor-arched brick opening beneath timber bressumer, containing salt cupboard with panelled door. Boxed-in spine beams and C19 fire surrounds to other ground-floor rooms. Very fine mid-late C17 open-well, closed-string staircase with panelled risers, bulbous vase-on-ball balusters, wide corniced handrail, panelled newel-posts with ball finials and pendant drops, large carved acanthus-scroll bracket to foot-newel, carved string with moulded bands and pulvinated frieze with bay-leaf moulding. 3-panel doors with bolection mouldings throughout, most with H-L hinges. Brick barrel- vaulted cellar beneath outshut to west of stair turret. 6-bay collared rafter roof with staggered butt purlins. Blocked original 2-light attic window to right gable with plain oak mullion. Blocked first-floor windows to rear of main range are visible in the west outshut. The stair turret appears to be a later addition and built to accommodate the staircase; the grandeur of the staircase itself, and the fact that some features of its lower section are obscured, suggests it may have been brought from elsewhere. Stands beside former south bank of Old River Don, on site of earlier hall, the foundations of which have been revealed by excavation in the garden. Photographs in NMR.

Listing NGR: SE8474618954

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