Welburn Hall
WELBURN HALL, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149212
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Welburn Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WELBURN HALL, BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149212
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Welburn Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELBURN HALL, BACK LANE
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:
- WELBURN HALL, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 68188 84649
Details
SE 68 SE WELBURN BACK LANE (north-east side, off)
4/93 Welburn Hall
- II
Country house, now school. 1890-1893, by Walter Brierley, for Miss E. Clarke; incorporating east wing of c.1610, for Sir John Gibson; extended 1895, by Walter Brierley, for Mr. J. Shaw; partly rebuilt after a fire in 1932 by E. Priestley. C17 wing of dressed sandstone; remainder sandstone ashlar; slate roof. C19 main range with crosswing to right; C17 crosswing to left, with two parallel C19 ranges beyond. 2-storey and attic on chamfered plinth; 3-storey porch; 2-storey extension ranges. Asymetrical. Central projecting porch contains panelled double doors with carved spandrels under segmental arch with grooved, splayed reveals. A moulded string course runs across the front, stepped above the doorway. Similar band at attic level below a plain, coped parapet. Irregular fenestration. Mullion and transom windows throughout. C17 crosswing to left : Partly rebuilt after 1931 fire. The 5-light mullion and transom lst-flour window under a flat dripmould survives, together with a 4-light mullion and transon window to left. Further similar windows survive over looking the court enclosed by the C19 extension ranges to left, and in the round floor of the garden end of the wing. The gable end on the garden side contains original 2-storey canted and castellated bay with 12-light lst-floor mullion and double transoms window. All C17 mullions and transoms are ovolo-moulded. A moulded string course runs across the tops of windows on the green side, breaking forward over carved brackets on each side of windows. A round-heated doorway survives in the angle of the crosswing and the garden front with moulded jambs, imposts, and a dropped keyblock carved with a mask and leaves. Rest of garden front largely rebuilt to modified design after 1931 fire. Interior: reset C17 chimney piece in the entrance hall. Tudor- arched fireplace in a carved surround of fluted pilasters on pedestals strapwork - carved frieze and mantle shelf on leaf-carved brackets. Overmantel of three equal panels surmounted by two horizontal bands, Bill of strapwork, toppedd by a projecting cornice. Reference: Charles Carus, Walter Brierley, unpublished thesis for the Institute of Advancd Architectural Studies, University of York; 1973.
Listing NGR: SE6818884649
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Carus, C, Walter Henry Brierley 1862-1926, ()
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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