Sheriff Hutton Hall
SHERIFF HUTTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174671
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Sheriff Hutton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SHERIFF HUTTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1174671
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sheriff Hutton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHERIFF HUTTON 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:
- SHERIFF HUTTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheriff Hutton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 66139 65580
Details
SE 66 NE SHERIFF HUTTON SHERIFF HUTTON PARK
3/37 Sheriff Hutton Hall (Formerly listed as Sheriff 25.1.54 Hutton Park under General) GV I
Country house. 1619-24, remodelled in c1730, with addition of 1848. C17 section by Richard Maybanck (master-mason) and Henry Duckett (master- carpenter) for Sir Arthur Ingram. C18 remodelling for Leonard Thompson. 1848 extension for Leonard Thompson III. Brick in English bond and stone slate roof to C18 section. Brick in Flemish bond and Westmorland slate roof to C19 section. Rectangular on plan with hallway entry and additional wing. C18 section: 2 storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays. Basement: 12-pane fixed windows with C20 French door in fourth bay. Steps to three-quarter- glazed door beneath tall divided overlight. Ground and first floor windows: unequal 15-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves. Several elaborate metal tie-plates hold C18 exterior wall to C17 wall which it encases. Modillion cornice. Hipped roof with unequal pedimented 9-pane sash dormers. Eaves stacks to left and probable C17 stacks rising through pitch of roof. C19 section: 2 storeys and basement, 3 bays, 1-3-1, the central bay being canted. All basement windows blocked except a fixed window to right. Ground floor: 12-pane sashes. First floor: unequal 9-pane sashes. Flat brick arches throughout. Hipped roof. Stack rising through pitch of roof. Single storey C19 greenhouse with gabled porch to right. The interior of the main range contains 4 well-preserved Jacobean rooms. The Great Hall contains an oak screen of 1622 by Henry Duckett. The interior decoration of the Oak Parlour is intact with a fine moulded plaster ceiling and frieze with geometrical rib pattern, pendant bosses and stylized foliage of c1620 by John Burridge. Carved chimneypiece by Thomas Ventris, c1620. Panelling, probably originally from Sheriff Hutton Castle (q.v.), with "H" motif, Back staircase of c1620 with squat turned balusters. Imposing main staircase of c1730 with alternate barleysugar and turned balusters, ramped handrail and foliage carving on brackets beneath treads. On landing is a massive Jacobean stair arch with male and female masks, and a heavy early C17 chest, the only remaining piece of furniture originally made for the house. The Library, or Baby and Bird Room contains overmantel with carvings of a baby and a bird, and a griffin. Moulded plaster ceiling and frieze, probably by Burridge. The Heraldic Room contains a good quality moulded plaster ceiling and frieze with heraldic designs, probably by Burridge, chimneypiece with strapwork and mythological beasts. Cock's head hinges to doors to closets. The Drawing Room: Jacobean great chamber, remodelled in c1730 to form saloon containing original chimneypiece, door cases, window cases,. dado and cornice. The house is built on the site of a royal hunting lodge. Gilbert C "Sheriff Hutton Hall" 1965. Gilbert C. "Sheriff Hutton Hall, Yorkshire" in Country Life Vol CXL 1966. Pevsner N. "Yorkshire: The North Riding" 1966.
Listing NGR: SE6613965580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329527
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
Gilbert, C, Sheriff Hutton Hall, (1965)
Country Life in Country Life, Vol. 140, (1966)
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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