Description

PATRINGTON WINESTEAD LANE TA 22 NE (north side, off) 3/62 Winestead Hall Hospital office and service block GV II

Stable block, now hospital office and service wing. 1762, attributed to John Carr of York, for Sir Robert Hildyard. Alterations and additions of 1930s and later. Red brick in English bond, Westmorland slate roof; wooden clock turret with lead roof. Classical style. U-shaped on plan, with blocked former central entrance to rear courtyard. One and half storeys. South front of 7 bays with second and sixth pedimented bays breaking forward. Plinth. Blind arcade of full-height round arches with ashlar impost band and rubbed-brick arches. Central former entrance arch with inserted door in rendered brick blocking, C20 doors in rendered surrounds to bays 1 and 7, 18-pane sashes to remaining bays with sills and rubbed-brick flat arches. First floor: short 8-pane sashes to bays 4-7, tripartite sashes to bays 1-3 in widened openings, in similar surrounds to ground floor. All windows are C20. Moulded wooden cornice and pediments. Hipped roof. Central clock tower of 2 stages: square-section first stage with recessed half-columns at angles carrying moulded segmental pediments and domed roof, circular belfry with colonuade carrying plain frieze, belled roof with ball finial and wrought-iron weather-vane with gilded weathercock. Left and right returns, of 3 bays, have similar blind arcading: right return has central door, 18-pane sash to right, partly-blocked window to left, 8- pane first-floor sashes; left return has similar ground-floor and first- floor sashes, with inserted sashes to central bay. Rear has datestone above blocked central entrance inscribed: RH ; door to right (west) wing with 1762 keyed flat arch. Formerly served as stable block and grooms' quarters for the Hildyard country house known as Red Hall, demolished 1936-7, the site of which is still visible to the south. The design of the block and clock tower is similar to those by Carr at Heath Hall and Ormesby Hall, North Yorkshire. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire, East Riding, 1972, p 371; York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr, 1973, p 35.

Listing NGR: TA2975725923

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