BOYNTON HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1083385
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: BOYNTON HALL
Statutory Address:: BOYNTON HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1083385
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: BOYNTON HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BOYNTON HALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOYNTON HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Boynton
National Grid Reference:: TA 13785 67806

Details

TA 16 NW BOYNTON BOYNTON HALL

10/21 Boynton Hall 11.1.52 (Formerly listed as Hall and outbuildings) GV I

Country House. Late C16, extensively remodelled 1700, 1730 to a design by Lord Burlington, and by John Carr in 1767. Red brick with burnt brick diaper work and stone dressings, ashlar, slate roofs. Original house of H-shaped plan with extruded corners, later infilled to main front. Symmetrical elevation of 3 storeys, 7 window front. Chamfered stone plinth, stone quoins. Slightly projecting 5-window infill with a 3-window polygonal bay rising through full height of house. C20 central door with rectangular fanlight over, with glazing bars, in eared architrave: all windows in polygonal bay are sashes, with glazing bars, in eared architraves with stone sills. Polygonal bay is flanked by round-headed windows with glazing bars and radial glazing to heads in plain stone surrounds with stone sills. Flanking cells have sash windows with glazing bars in eared stone surrounds with stone sills. Moulded strings to first and second floors, moulded eaves cornice, axial stacks, all roofs hipped. Garden elevation is symmetrical; 3 storeys, 5 bays arranged in a receding front A-B-C-B-A. C19 double door to central bay with glazing bars in tripartite arrangement with side windows with glazing bars enclosed by Tuscan pilasters and entablature. Venetian window over with glazing bars and Doric pilasters and entablature. Diocletian window to second floor. Pediment with moulded cornice. All ground and first floor windows have sashes with glazing bars in eared architraves with stone sills: second floor has sashes with glazing bars in eared and shouldered architraves. Right return front is symmetrical, 3 storeys, 3 bays. Central double door under fanlight with glazing bars in rusticated surround with massive imposts and projecting key-block. Tuscan porch with columns in antis supporting entablature and balustrade over with turned balusters and moulded handrail. First floor has central Venetian window with Ionic pilasters and entablature and projecting key-block. Second floor has central oculus window with radial glazing in moulded surround. Ground and first floor windows have sashes with glazing bars in eared architraves with stone sills; second floor has sashes with glazing bars in eared and shouldered architraves. Many internal features of great richness survive, including a closed string staircase of c1700, twisted balusters, and ramped and moulded handrail in a stair-hall with contemporary bolection-moulded panelling and rich plaster ceiling; 2 fireplaces by William Kent, 1 with opposed consoles and frieze decorated with swags, the other with detail taken from the design by Inigo Jones for the screen in the chapel at Somerset House; a bolection-moulded marble fireplace and overmantel of c1700 in The Queen's Bedroom; and a further room with bolection-moulded panelling at the south end of the west wing. Country Life, CXVI (1954), pp 280, 356.

Listing NGR: TA1378167804

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 166791
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 17 June, , Vol. 116, (1954), 280,356

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.