Old Hall

Details

BARMSTON SANDS LANE TA 15 NE (south side, off) 8/2 Old Hall 11.1.52 II*

House. Probably late C17, with earlier range to left of reputedly C16 origins, and later additions and alterations including C19 range to rear. Pinkish-red brick in Flemish bond with alternate rows of stretcher bond, range to left in English garden wall bond with cobbles to side and rear, ashlar dressings and pantile roof. Main range of 2 storeys with basement and attics to gable with 2-lower-storey range to left with one window opening. Main range: chamfered ashlar plinth. Ashlar quoins to right. 2 inserted late C19 off-centre entrances, ornamentally-panelled doors with divided overlights in panelled recesses and C20 surrounds, these interrupt three Cl7 blocked window openings with ashlar surrounds. Fourth original window to right, a 3-light mullion-and-transom window with cavetto-moulded mullions in double-chamfered surround, partly recut. Further inserted window between doors an early C20 casement which interrupts plinth. First floor: 2-light blocked cavetto-moulded mullion-and-transom window in double-chamfered surround to left. Then a 3-light mullion-and-transom window with cavetto- mouldings and rolled head in double-chamfered cavetto-and-roll moulded surround. A blocked 3-light cavetto-moulded mullion-and-transom window in double-chamfered surround, and similar glazed window. All partly recut. Shaped ashlar modillion eaves band. Swept roof. Remains of ashlar kneeler to right end, ashlar copings and ball finial. Left end has brick copings. End stack, and rear external stacks with diamond chimneys. Tumbled-in brick work to left gable end. Right gable end: 2 casement windows in chamfered surrounds set into plinth, that to right shows remains of central mullion. Ground floor has two 2-light mullion-and-transom windows, that to left has partly-recut cavetto-moulded mullion in double-chamfered surround. First floor has two 2-light cavetto-moulded mullion-and-transom windows. To gable a casement window in remains of ashlar surround showing evidence of central mullion, under triangular pediment of rubbed brick. To rear of main range: ground floor has blocked 2-light mullion-and-transom window with remains of cavetto-and-roll-moulded mullions. Further remains of blocked opening with ashlar surround interrupted by early C20 casement. Mezzanine has 2-light cavetto-and-roll-moulded mullion window in cavetto-chamfered surround. First floor has 3-light mullion-and-transom window with similar moulding. Cogged eaves. Range to left: ashlar quoins. Brick plinth with chamfered ashlar copings interrupted by inserted early C20 casement window. Shaped ashlar modillions. Brick copings, end stack. Gable end has remains of blocked window with ashlar quoined jambs under cavetto-moulded hood with label stops and brick relieving arch. Above a 3-light cavetto-moulded window in double-chamfered surround with quoined jambs. Tumbled-in brickwork to gable end. To rear: C20 glazed entrance and casement window. 3-light cavetto-moulded mullion-and-transom window in double-chamfered surround under cavetto-moulded hood with label stops and relieving arch. First floor has 12-pane, 2-light Yorkshire sash. Cogged eaves band. Interior to both ranges much altered in C19. Reputedly the remaining part of the C16 manor house of the Boyntons who acquired Burton Agnes Hall (qv) through marriage in the C17. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 167.

Listing NGR: TA1557058793

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 167

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