WHIXLEY HALL

WHIXLEY HALL, WEST LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149939
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: WHIXLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: WHIXLEY HALL, WEST LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149939
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-1952
List Entry Name:: WHIXLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WHIXLEY HALL, WEST LANE

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:: WHIXLEY HALL, WEST LANE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whixley
National Grid Reference:: SE 44148 58324

Details

SE 45 NW WHIXLEY WEST LANE (north side, off)

3/79 Whixley Hall

8.3.52

GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Mid-late C17, 2 builds, with restoration of 1907. Red brick, English bond, C20 ashlar, stone slate roof. H-shaped plan with rear courtyard, the south and west ranges apparently added to the east range. 2 storeys, 7 first-floor windows, the 2 at each end in slightly projecting wings. Stone-capped plinth, central C20 6-panel door with overlight in heavily-moulded ashlar surround with consoles supporting broken segmental pediment with vase. Wooden cross-windows with glazing bars under flat brick arches. Wings have giant pilaster strips which contain the windows and ground-floor drip-mould. Deep wooden modillioned eaves cornice. Hipped roofs to wings. Stack on ridge between centre block and left wing. Second stack far right. Rear: ground floor, left, a 4-light mullioned window in the north end of the east range. Tumbled brickwork in gable. Probably re-set datestone inscribed '1840 L.W. in scrolled surround W.' built into the right return of this range. Remaining windows mostly C20. Left return: (west side) of 8 bays has a re-set datestone of 1680. Right return (east side) has scattered fenestration and an external stack, a 3-light mullioned window to first floor left with large staircase window below and a re-set datestone inscribed 'RT KT 1654'. Interior: east range contains fine dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and tall angularly-carved newel posts rising high above the moulded handrail. An engraving in the hall inscribed 'Christopher Tancred's seat 1698' shows the south front before the C20 restoration, but not very different. Christopher Tancred died in 1754 and bequeathed the hall as an almshouse for 12'decayed gentlemen'. The hall remained an almshouse or 'hospital' until after 1850 but was disused in 1881. The central section of the south front was apparently restored and rebuilt by Walter Brierley in 1907, but he followed the original design quite closely. Kelly's Directory of Yorkshire West Riding, 1881, 1889, 1904, 1912. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, 1967, p 552. William and Co., Directory of Towns and Villages Hull 1844.

Listing NGR: SE4414858324

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 330658
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 552
William, , Company, , Directory of Towns and Villages, (1844)
'Kelly's Directory' in Yorkshire West Riding, (1912)

Legal

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