Houghton Hall
HOUGHTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160656
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HOUGHTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1160656
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Houghton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUGHTON 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:
- HOUGHTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sancton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 88833 39145
Details
SANCTON HOUGHTON HALL SE 83 NE 11/74 Houghton Hall Hall 18.1.52 GV I
House. c1760. Probably by Thomas Atkinson for Philip Langdale. Remodelled 1957-60 by Francis Johnson. Pink brick with stone dressing, timber eaves cornice, slate roof. Main range of 2 storeys, 5 bays 2:1:2, flanked by single-storey 3-bay quadrants to pavilions of 2 storeys and attics, 3 bays. Main range: entrance front. Plinth. Centre 3 bays break forward under low pediment. Ground floor': porch of 1957-60 has 2-leaf door of six raised and fielded panels under fanlight with radial glazing in architrave with fanned keyblock beneath pediment. Sashes with sills and glazing bars under cambered gauged brick arches. First floor: 9-pane unequal sashes with sills under cambered gauged brick arches. Modillion eaves and raked cornices, axial stacks, hipped roof. Quadrant walls: each has plinth and three round- headed sashes with radial glazing in blank round-headed recesses under coping with four urns. Pavilions: ground floor: sashes with sills and glazing bars under cambered gauged brick arches. First floor: similar, 6- pane, sashes. Gauged-brick oculi with radial glazing to pediments. Raked cornice, axial stacks. Main range, garden elevation: ground floor largely rebuilt by Francis Johnson. Sashes with glazing bars, bracketed sills, architraves and floating cornices on ground floor (pediment over central garden door); 9-pane unequal sashes with sills to first floor. The rear elevation of the quadrants is straight: service door in angle with main range, sashes with sills and glazing bars under cambered brick arches to remaining bay. The rear elevation of each pavilion is identical to the front elevation. Interior: entrance hall. Glazed inner door of two raised- and-fielded panels beneath 6-pane window. Half turn cut-string stair with half-landing above door: sunk panels beneath treads, turned balusters, moulded handrail. Dentilled cornice. Two round arches to library to left. Drawing room: ornate marble fireplace with festoons, scrolls, wreaths, and chains of flowers. Smoking room: doors in eared architraves under dentilled cornices. Polychrome marble fireplace with tapering Ionic pilasters under eared and shouldered overmantel with pediment. Panelled dado; Vitruvian scroll to mutule cornice. Houghton Hall is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II.
Listing NGR: SE8883339145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167071
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 22 Humberside,
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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