Dalton Hall
DALTON HALL, DALTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161304
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dalton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- DALTON HALL, DALTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161304
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dalton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- DALTON HALL, DALTON PARK
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:
- DALTON HALL, DALTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalton Holme
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 95584 45076
Details
In the entry for
DALTON HOLME
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DALTON HOLME DALTON PARK SE 94 NE 2/24 Dalton Hall 6.5.52 GV II* House. Before 1737, entirely rebuilt and extended 1771-5 by Thomas Atkinson for Lord Hotham. Grey brick with stone dressings, slate roofs. Main block of 3 storeys, 5 bays, with single-storey 3-bay flanking wings to pavilions: the south, of 2 storeys, 3 x 3 bays, the north of single storey, 3 x 3 bays. Main range: ground floor: hexastyle portico with entablature and blocking course to 2-leaf panelled door and fanlight with radial glazing in architrave. Four 2-pane sashes with margin-pane glazing and sills under floating cornices. First floor: narrow sill band. Five 2-pane sashes with margin-pane glazing: the centre sash in chambranles under a segmental pediment, the outer sashes under floating cornices. Second floor: 5 small 2-pane sashes with margin-pane glazing and sills, central one in shouldered architrave, the others below flat brick arches. Dentilled cornice. Balustraded parapet with central achievement of arms and urns to piers. End stacks with cornices, hipped roof. Linking wings: each has three 2-pane sashes with margin-pane glazing under floating cornices. Balustraded parapet. To the angle with the pavilions on each side is a door and fanlight in a bow-fronted porch with detached columns under a similar, lower, balustraded parapet. Pavilions: south pavilion. Three 2-pane sashes with margin-pane glazing under floating cornices, the central one on brackets. First-floor band and narrow sill band. First floor: 3 similar, smaller sashes. Dentilled eaves and raked cornices to pediment with oval cartouche containing carved merman. Balustraded parapet to north and south, large axial stack with cornice. North pavilion: three 2-pane sashes with margin-pane glazing and floating cornices, the central one on brackets. Band to coped parapet. All ground and first-floor windows in architraves. Interior: although extensively remodelled c1840 and again c1954 the house retains a number of original features including some fine late C18 marble fireplaces and complete series of excellent internal doors with beaded panelling. There are extensive cellars beneath the Hall some of which clearly belong to an earlier structure on the site: presumably that shown in an engraving of 1737. Vitruvius Britannicus Vol IV, 1739, plates 90-91.
Listing NGR: SE9558445076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vitruvius Britannicus in Vitruvius Britannicus, Vol. 4, (1739), plate 90-1
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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