Kirby Hall
KIRBY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150293
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kirby Hall
- Statutory Address:
- KIRBY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150293
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kirby Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRBY HALL
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:
- KIRBY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Hall
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45787 60947
Details
KIRBY HALL KIRBY HALL ESTATE SE 4460-4560 10/32 Kirby Hall GV II Service wing of country house, now house. c.1755, altered c.1920 when original house demolished. By Lord Burlington and Roger Morris for Stephen Thompson. John Carr was Clerk of Works. Limestone ashlar on plinth, left return rendered; sandstone doorcase; slate roof. 2-storey-and-attic, 2-window front with 1-storey, 4-bay range set back at right. Entrance in left return. All windows are sashes with stone sills, those on ground and attic floors 6-pane and on first floor 12-pane. Plain flush lintels to all windows. Raised first floor and attic bands, and moulded eaves cornice. Four stacks with heavily corbelled cornices on hipped roof: two on ridge, and one on each side of roof hip. Left return: door and doorcase from original house inserted to form new entrance. Doorcase has moulded surround beneath scrolled-console cornice hood and contains half-glazed door. Rear: repeats front, with 9-pane sashes on ground floor. 1-storey range has two board doors to left, and half-glazed door and small sash window at right. Moulded eaves cornice beneath plain parapet. The house, originally comprising a wing of the Hall, is the only surviving part of the important country house illus- trated in Vitruvius Brittanicus, Vol.V, plates 70 and 71. See also: H.Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840; Country Life,17 February, 1972; York Georgian Society Annual Report for 1985; York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr.
Listing NGR: SE4578760947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331847
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Works in Architecture of John Carr, (1973)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Vitruvius Britannicus in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. 5, (), Pl. 70-71
York Georgian Society Annual Report in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1985)
Country Life in 17 February, (1972)
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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