Birdsall House
BIRDSALL HOUSE, THE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174509
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Birdsall House
- Statutory Address:
- BIRDSALL HOUSE, THE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174509
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Birdsall House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRDSALL HOUSE, THE 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:
- BIRDSALL HOUSE, THE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Birdsall
- National Grid Reference:
- SE8151164833
Details
SE 86 SW
7/23
20.9.51
BIRDSALL
THE PARK
Birdsall House
GV
II*
Country house. Late C16 origins, remodelled 1749 with addition of second
storey to main range, and right wing of 1872. For the Willoughby family,
the Lords Middleton. 1872 section by Salvin. Ashlar, Welsh slate roofs.
Central range connected to side wings by single-cell units, with service
wing to rear parallel to right wing. Main facade: central 5-bay, 3-storey
range flanked by single-bay 2-storey sections linking with 2-bay, 2-storey
side wings. Central section: steps up to hexastyle Tuscan portico in antis
with balustrade and plain entablature. Central double-leaf 8-panel door in
rusticated architrave with metope frieze and pediment, flanked by unequal 6-
pane sashes in keyed architraves. First floor: 4-pane sashes in keyed
architraves, the central one being eared and shouldered,with band above.
Second floor: 4-pane sashes in keyed architraves. Moulded cornice.
Balustrade with blind panels. Hipped roof. Linking bays each have
elliptical-arched tripartite sashes and moulded cornice with 6-panel double-
leaf doors in rusticated surrounds to returns. First floor set back, lit by
4-pane sashes in keyed architraves. Band and plain parapet. Side wings
each have pair of elliptical-arched tripartite sashes to ground floor each
in correspondence to three 4-pane sashes, with keystones breaking continuous
band, to first floor. The returns towards the courtyard are similarly
treated, although of one bay only. Garden facade: central 5-bay, 3-storey
range flanked by 7-bay, 2-storey wings with canted central sections and
additional 4-bay, 3-storey wing to left. Central section: central 3 bays
break forward with rusticated pilasters. Plinth and floor bands. Steps to
half-glazed door in keyed rusticated architrave with pulvinated frieze
carrying pediment. 4-pane sashes in keyed architraves throughout. Central
window to first floor in eared and shouldered architrave with double
keystone. Moulded cornice. Balustrade with blind panels. Outer wings have
4-pane sashes in keyed architraves except round-arched openings to ground
floor of canted bays. First-floor band to outer bays of left wing. Plain
parapet. Left wing: 4-pane sashes beneath keystones throughout. Plain
parapet. Interior: contains several fine state rooms, including oval
drawing room of c1780 and ballroom of c1790. Richly carved doors to rear of
house suggest that the main front was towards the garden in late C18. Work
by Salvin includes Doric screen to dining room, fireplaces in Long Hall,
massive wooden main stair and delicate quadripartite vaulting on first
floor. The house was the first in England to have a private gas system
installed. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972. York
Georgian Society: Annual Report 1975.
Listing NGR: SE8151164833
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
Annual Report in Annual Report, (1975)
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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