Description

SCUNTHORPE BRUMBY WOOD LANE SE 81 SE (south side) 1/3 Brumby Hall - GV II*

Country house. C17 front range with sundial dated 1637 inserted in porch, widened and extended to rear in late 1790s by George Pycock of Hull (d 1799) for Thomas Pindar. C19 and C20 alterations and extensions to rear. Local red brick, the C17 portion in English Bond, the C18 in Flemish Bond. Ashlar dressings and facing to ground floor of porch. Westmorland slate roof with brick stacks. Rectangular in plan: front range with projecting porch, double span rear wing with stair-turret alongside for back stairs. 3 storeys, irregular fenestration. Ashlar quoins to right. Full height porch to right of centre has brick plinth, ashlar quoins and ashlar-faced entrance with double panelled doors under a plain rectangular overlight, flanked by Doric pilasters supporting a moulded string-course. Rectangular carved stone sundial with scroll decoration and date in an inserted brick panel between storeys, with a large first floor casement above. Top stage has a large panel with a pair of strapwork grotesques supporting a shield bearing the arms of Nathaniel Fiennes (arms added 1962), with stone-coped battlements above. Porch sides have a single first floor blocked ashlar window with a square cut transom, an eared architrave, moulded cornice and hood. Moulded ashlar basement string-course and flat first floor band to right of porch. To left, two 24-pane sashes to ground and first floors under flat rubbed brick arches, and a second floor round-headed casement with glazing bars. Hipped roof with massive axial stack. Flag pole above porch. Right return has C17 ashlar quoins, first floor band and a pair of blocked ashlar basement windows beneath hood-moulds returned as a string-course: 3 lights, with ovolo mullions to the window on the right, those on the left removed. 1790s Venetian stair-window above right. Rear stair-turret has 'P' tie bar. Left return, of 2 and 3 storeys, 9 bays, has first floor brick band and 24-pane sashes under flat brick arches. 2 storey, 4-bay range to left has cogged brick eaves cornice, tumbled gables and massive axial stack. Interior: Pycock's fine stairhall has a re-used closed string staircase of c1700 with vase balusters and later swept handrail, a garlanded Adam-style plaster ceiling with dentilled cornice, and columns and pilasters dividing the lights of the Venetian stair-window. In the later C16 - early C17 Brumby Hall was the home of Richard Bellingham, a founder of Boston in the 1630s and later Governor of Massachusetts. The Hall later became the home of Nathaniel Fiennes, Parliamentarian colonel and Speaker of Cromwell's Parliament. The 'P' tie bar end relates to the Pindar family, local gentry who owned the Hall from c1700 - 1813. M E Armstrong (ed), An Industrial Island - History of Scunthorpe, 1982, pp 9-12, pl 8.

Listing NGR: SE8884910446

External Links

• Brumby Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17533758

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