Grimston Park

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GRIMSTON GRIMSTON PARK ESTATE SE 44 SE 3/31 Grimston Park 4.7.52 GV II* Small country house now several dwellings. Probably early C18 core with rebuilding of c1840 by Decimus Burton for second Lord Howden and c1850 for Lord Londesborough with later alterations including those of late C20; 'RESTAURI MDCCCXL' on balustrade. Tadcaster limestone ashlar with Welsh slate and cast-tile roof. Main block of 2 storeys and 7 bays with projecting portico. 3 storey, single bay tower and single-storey, 5-bay loggia (formerly conservatory) to right. To each side of main range an entrance lodge with 4-bay, single-storey curved walls adjoining, that to left screening service buildings. Adjoining main range to left a 2-lower- storey, 6-bay range of which the centre 2 bays break forward. Clock tower to left. Main range: ramps to central entrance have curved walls terminating in cast-iron lamp standards. Ionic tetrastyle portico with frieze and cornice contains double, part-glazed doors within architrave surmounted by medallion of draped female figure. To either side a tall, narrow 4-pane sash with apron within architrave. Otherwise ground-floor windows are 8-pane sashes with aprons within architraves under cornices with console brackets. First floor: central Venetian window with 12-pane sash to centre and 4-pane sashes to sides within architrave and with cornice and central pediment on acanthus consoles. Otherwise 12-pane sashes within architraves with cornices. Dentilled cornice. Low balustraded parapet surmounted by central carved coat of arms, now eroded, and urns. Tower has 12-pane sashes to first 2 stages within architraves and with moulded sills on brackets, that to second stage has pediment on consoles. Dentil cornice. To third stage, 3 rounded-headed windows in architrave to each face. Modillion cornice. Peaked roof surmounted by ornamental finial. Loggia has pilasters with frieze and cornice. Lodges have 6-panel doors within architraves with cornice and pediment on acanthus consoles. Full-height pilasters to angles support frieze, cornice and blocking course with urns at angles. Adjoining walls have rusticated plinth, further moulded plinth supporting pilasters which articulate each bay, surmounted by urns. Otherwise plain walls to right, those to left containing 4-pane sashes. Cornice. Low parapet. Range to left has mainly 12-pane sashes under flat arches or within pilastered architraves. Frieze, dentil cornice, balustrade. Clock tower has clock faces inserted into round-arched openings, frieze, modillion cornice, peaked roof surmounted by weather vane. Ridge, end and roof stacks. Garden front has hexastyle Ionic portico in antis and cornice, and balcony to first floor with slender columns supporting hood. Interior contains good C19 decoration and elements from C18 house including dog-leg staircase with rod-on-vase balusters. Entrance hall has 4 Doric columns. Service staircase has column-on-vase balusters. Panelled library. A number of rooms have decorative panelling and ornately painted ceilings and good fireplaces. Remains of blue Chinese wallpaper. Good cornices. 6-panel doors. Panelled shutters. Hussey C, English Country Houses, Late Georgian, 1800 - 1840, 1958, pp 230-238. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, pp 227.

Listing NGR: SE4983741208

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Sources

Books and journals
Hussey, C, English Country Houses Late Georgian 1800 to 1840, (1958), 230-238
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 227

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