Swanland House
SWANLAND HOUSE, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103302
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swanland House
- Statutory Address:
- SWANLAND HOUSE, WEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103302
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swanland House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWANLAND HOUSE, WEST END
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SWANLAND HOUSE, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanland
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 99310 27844
Details
SWANLAND WEST END SE 92 NE (south side) 6/94 Swanland House - II Large house. 1862. Yellow brick with ashlar sandstone dressings. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys; l:l:l-bay front with 1:3-bay returns and lower, 3 x 2-bay service wing to rear right. Entrance in recessed centre has Ionic columns and archivolt with massive, carved keystone; carved spandrels and consoles beneath bow-fronted cornice with decorative iron balustrade. Plain sash above has moulded imposts and segmental archivolt. Flanking bays project, are gabled and have wooden, 1-storey canted bay-windows with plinth projections, plain sashes, carved friezes and cornices on consoles. 1st floor: iron balustrade in front of recessed tripartite windows with plain sashes in pilastered surrounds with archivolts over round-headed sidelights and segmental centre lights with keystones. Gables have moulding within open pediments formed by wooden cornices on raking brackets; iron finial on right. Decorative ridge cresting, 2 stacks with plinths and broad cornices. Left return; bay 1 is gabled and set forward. Decorated segmental archivolts over plain sashes to ground floor (bay 1 with shouldered architrave, bay 2 altered). lst-floor windows with sill band on blocks, segmental archivolts (bay 1 with carved keystone). Right return: similar to left but handed and less ornate. Interior: entrance hall has 4-panel doors with raised mouldings in eared architraves set on tall skirtings. Wooden, cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balustrade panels which coil beneath handrail around a carved newel; ceiling rose. Front-right room: enriched doorcase, marble fireplace with round arch, keystone and dentilled cornice; bay window flanked by pilasters with floral drops; deep frieze with acanthus swirls, moulded cornice, ceiling rose. Front-left room: white marble fireplace with fine carving and bowed cornice, deep frieze in Neo-Classical style otherwise similar to right room. Landing: archivolt side openings; panelled frieze; margin-glazed ceiling lights. Front rooms on 1st floor have painted marble fireplaces and colonettes to the window mullions. An outstanding example of a typical design for its period.
Listing NGR: SE9931027844
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164852
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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