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THORPE UNDERWOODS THORPE GREEN LANE SE 45 NE (south-east side, off) 7/60 Thorpe Underwood Hall 15/1/80 II* Country house. Dated 1902-03. By W.H.Brierley for F.W.Slingsby. Red brick in English band, on chamfered brick plinth; sandstone quoined window and door surrounds, and mullions. Slate roof. Neo-Jacobean style. Entrance front: 2 storeys and attic, 5-bays, with further 2-storey service bay at far left end. End and centre bays project, end bays having shaped gables, and centre bay, forming frontispiece, having shaped parapet. Entrance in centre bay has square-headed doorcase with nail-studded double doors in double-chamfered, Tudor-arched recessed opening. Arch spandrels carved with acorns and oak leaves, and lintel inscribed: ANNO TERTIO EDUARDI VII BRITT REX in Gothic lettering between Tudor roses. Heraldic beasts flank doorway and above is shield with rampant lion surrounded by acorns and oak leaves, carved in the round. Wrought iron bell pull. 3-light mullioned window, with decorative leaded glazing, beneath square hoodmould on crowned lion stops, above. To right, ground floor windows of paired, mullioned and transomed lights with king mullions; on first floor two 4-light mullioned and transomed windows, and one 2-light mullioned window. To left, 3-light mullioned and double transomed staircase window with heraldic stained glass. Service bay window mullioned and transomed; remaining left bay windows mullioned and scattered. Mullioned attic windows in gabled bays, half-hipped dormers in three centre bays. All windows have square-leaded lights, except where indicated. Continuous brick first floor string and brick dentilleed eaves cornice beneath coped parapet. Original rainwater goods, dated 1903 on hopper, have clamps stamped with letter S or heraldic lion. Four banks of conjoined stacks, some set diagonally, with corbelled cornices. Garden front: three 2-storey-and-attic bays between 2-storey bays to main part, and 2-storey, 3-bay service wing set back at right. Main part centre and outer bays project, forming 2-storey bay windows, the centre one canted, the outer ones square. Ground and first floor windows are mullioned and transomed, 5-light in outer bays, 4-light in centre and 3-light in inner left bay. Inner right bay has 4-light ground floor window with king mullion, and 3-light window on first floor. Centre and outer bays under plain parapet, which forms balcony to attic in centre bay. Attic windows of three mullioned lights. Plain coped central gable flanked by shaped gables. Service wing has Tudor-arched doorway with date 1902 carved in spandrels. Windows are mullioned. South-west front: 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays, 2 bays gabled. 2-storey, half-octagonal bay at right with mullioned and transomed windows on both floors, and coped parapet. Mullioned and transomed windows to left, one of 4 lights on ground floor, two of 3 lights on first floor. Attic windows of 3 mullioned lights. Interior. Entrance porch barrel-vaulted with glazed inner door in Tudor-arched surround with carved spandrels. Hall: massive carved stone fireplace and overmantel. Painted ceiling beams and joists. Library: panelled and shelved, shelving incorporated into vast inglenook fireplace. Drawing room: re-used C18 eared chimneypiece with carved frieze, beneath panelled overmantel between floral drops. Beamed, plastered ceiling. Dining room: heavily carved chimneypiece and overmantel, fireplace between Ionic columns supporting fretted frieze and cornice shelf, overmantel of carved sunk panels between Composite columns. Beamed, plastered ceiling. Staircase: closed string, dogleg stair with turned balusters, moulded handrail and carved square newels. Moulded plaster ceiling. All main ground floor rooms richly panelled in square sunk panelling. Sunlounge extension not of special interest. Charles Carus, Walter Henry Brierley 1862-1926: unpublished Diploma in Conservation Studies dissertation, University of York. P.Nuttgens, Brierley in Yorkshire. York Georgian Society, Annual Report for 1984. Yorkshire Life Illustrated, May, 1955.

Listing NGR: SE4632959252

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