Ebberston Hall
EBBERSTON HALL, A170
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149555
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Ebberston Hall
- Statutory Address:
- EBBERSTON HALL, A170
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1149555
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Ebberston Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- EBBERSTON HALL, A170
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:
- EBBERSTON HALL, A170
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ebberston and Yedingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 89243 83423
Details
EBBERSTON A 170 SE 88 SE (north side,off) 10/14 Ebberston Hall 10.11.53 - I Summer pavilion, now small country house. 1718; wings demolished early C19; cupola dismantled 1905; ground floor extended c1935. By Colen Campbell for William Thompson, MP for Scarborough. Vermiculated sandstone front with ashlar dressings and iron railings. Vermiculated sandstone basement to rear, with ashlar dressings and quoins; ashlar ground floor with chamfered vermiculated quoins and iron railings. Main front: ground floor and basement, 3 bays, the basement extending to form terrace in front of house. Open staircase to centre with obelisk torch standards at the foot and wrought iron holders. Semicircular niches with shell heads on either side. Second flight of steps leads to central 8-panel door with pilaster jambs and radial fanlight. Rusticated door surround with chamfered voussoirs and dropped keystone carved with a mask and William Thompson's monogram. Pedimented Tuscan doorcase of attached columns banded with frosted rustication and the bust of a faun in the tympanum. 12-pane sashes on either side with chamfered voussoirs and dropped keystones carved with masks and foliage. Doorcase entablature continues across house front beneath projecting cornice surmounted by a balustrade with vases at the corners. At each end of the terrace are two short flights of steps, against the house, with no apparent purpose. An iron handrail on slender supports and with knob finials rises up the main staircase, continues around the terrace and up the short flights of steps on the terrace. Garden front: ground floor and basement, 5 bays wide, the 3 centre bays, quoined to basement, breaking forward. Blocked round arch to centre flanked by two C20 square lattice cross windows in plain surrounds with raised keystones. The three centre bays to ground floor form a Tuscan loggia distyle in antis of which the openings were glazed probably shortly after occupation by William Thompson. Iron railings and gate with monogram to centre opening remain. The uneven 15-pane sashes have timber architraves the same as those to the stone flanking windows, with raised keystones. Loggia entablature continues across the width of the house beneath projecting cornice and blind parapet with vases to the corners. All break forward over centre bays. End stacks to flat roof. C20 extension not of special interest. Interior: decorative scheme has survived intact. Hall: Doric doorcases to main entrance and loggia. Bolection-moulded panelling. Left front room: bolection-moulded panelling. Fluted Corinthian pilasters flank the chimneypiece and rear connecting door and have richly carved capitals and entablature, which breaks forward over the pilasters. Enriched door, window and alcove architraves. Coved ceiling. Square fireplace in stone fasciated architrave. Right front room: bolection-moulded panelling. Enriched cornice with pairs of carved consoles. Enriched door and window architraves. Square fireplace in stone bolection-moulded architrave. To right of fireplace is an alcove cupboard with piers and cornice broken back in four planes. Left rear room: bolection-moulded panelling. Coved cornice with carved timber enrichment. Loggia: stone carved bolection- moulded panelling. Fluted Ionic pilasters flank the panelled double doors and separate the windows. Doorcase with radial fanlight has a lively keystone carved as the head of Silenus. Semicircular niches with dolphin keystones to left and right. Highly enriched entablature, breaking over the pilasters, beneath coved, panelled ceiling. The house is an integral part of the watergarden (qv), extensive remains of which survive to the north. C Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, or the British Architect, Vol iii, 1725: p 15; pl 47. Architectural Review, xxvi, 1909: pp 231-44. Country Life, cxvi, 1954: pp 1158 - 1254. H E Stutchbury, The Architecture of Colen Campbell, 1967: pp 44-47; figs 29- 33. N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire the North Riding, 1966: p 154; pl 45 (a).
Listing NGR: SE8924383423
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stutchbury, H E, The Architecture of Colen Campbell, (1967), 44-47
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 154
Vitruvius Britannicus in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. 3, (1725), 15
Architectural Review in Architectural Review, Vol. 26, (1909), 231-44
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 116, (1954), 1158-1254
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
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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