Description

WADWORTH WADWORTH SK59NE

5/69 Wadworth Hall and 5.6.68 attached wing walls (formerly listed as Wadworth with linked garden and forecourt walls)

GV I

Large house with attached wing walls, now offices. c1750 with early C19 service wing. By James Paine for Josias Wordsworth. Ashlar magnesian limestone, Westmorland slate roof. Double-pile plan with 3 symmetrical elevations. 2 storeys with attics, 4x3 bays with later 2-storey, 3-bay service wing on right and wing walls attached to each corner. Entrance front: central 6-panel door in architrave with double keystone breaking into consoled pediment; tall plinth forms sill to flanking sashes with glazing bars in corniced architraves. Outer bays have swept-shouldered surrounds to architraves of similar sashes beneath segmental pediments. ist floor: sill band; central semi-domed niche with shouldered architrave and moulded impost to archivolt with scrolled keystone; architraved sashes with glazing bars to each side have pulvinated friezes and cornices continued from niche impost. Outer bays have sashes as centre but with shouldered architraves. Modillioned cornice. 3 dormer windows with unequally-hung 12-pane sashes beneath segmental pediments. Hipped roof with ashlar stacks to rear of ridge. C19 wing on right has sashes with glazing bars and blind window to lst-floor centre; hipped end to roof on right. Wing wall to right: plinth continues from house around shaped wall having 6-panel door flanked by piers on left of a quadrant curve with domed niche; heavy copings with ball-final plinths. Left wing wall is similar but with open gate leading to left return. Rear: central canted-bay projection with tall round-headed sash with glazing bars in swept-shouldered surround to architrave, consoled pediment; canted sides have unequally-hung 15-pane sashes in architraves beneath floating cornices. Side bays each have pedimented sash. 1st-floor: sill band links corniced sashes with glazing bars; central sash set beneath a blind Diocletian opening. Wing walls similar to those at front but with their doorways surmounted by rusticated arches with keystones beneath pediments. Left return: central double doors beneath consoled cornice. 1st floor: balustrade across recess with Ionic Venetian stair window. Interior: entrance hall has Vitruvian-scroll dado rail; side-wall fireplace with tapered columns having drops from lions' heads, egg-and-dart surround, Vitruvian-scroll frieze and cornice with pediment; Rococo panel over has elongated cornucopiae. Opposite fireplace an architraved wall panel with cornice. Enriched 6-panel doors; that to former dining room in doorcase with oak-leaf frieze and consoled cornice; 4 other doors have eared and round- headed architraves. Stair hall, off to left, has cantilevered wooden staircase with wrought-iron balustrade of acanthus scrolls, wooden handrail; corniced plaster wall panels with egg-and-dart enriched architraves and swags of flowers and fruit; excellent Rococo ceiling with oval centre panel. Former dining room, to rear centre, has doorcase frieze carved with exotic fruit; fine marble fireplace similar to hall but with carved centre panel. Adjacent room also has excellent doorcases and fireplace. M. Girouard, 'Wadworth Hall, Yorkshire', Country Life, Sept.1,1966, pp 494-498.

Listing NGR: SK5671197258

External Links

• Wadworth Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7959365

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)