The Hall

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ST 45 NW WINSCOMBE WINSCOMBE HILL 3/10000 The Hall II House. 1855 by William Railton and remodelled and extended c1858-1871 by William Burges for Rev John Augustus Yatman. Coursed and dressed limestone with ashlar dressings; later work has buff, probably Ham Hill, dressings; slate roofs with ashlar ridge and end stacks; roofs to rear have Welsh and Westmoreland slate laid to give striped polchromatic effect. L-plan with rear left wing. Italianate style, with Gothic Revival extensions by Burges. 2 storeys. South garden front of 2:2:3:2:2-fenestration. Horned 2/2-pane sashes set in raised ashlar architraves. 3-window centre flanked by 2-window gables with oculi: steps to pedimented doorway with swept lugs to architrave and sash extending to floor and used as entry. Outer wings with 2-window fronts by Burges include ground-floor arcades with semi-circular arches and plain abaci to short central columns and imposts. Service wing to left, with gable facing to left of 3-window front, includes 6/6-pane sashes. Plain conservatory to east (right). Rear has similar sashes, some of 6/6-panes, and architraves; large flat-roofed porch with half-glazed door and casements and bracketted canopy. Rear wing by Burges has tall hipped roof and 4-window east front with similar architraves to tall above short casements with segmental-arched doorway to right; pyramidal-roofed tower by Burges at angle with main range, with polychromatic voussoirs to oculi above 2-light casements and to semi-circular arch with richly-carved foliate capitals to columns and responds; Yatman rebus and date 1871 to key of arch. Interior: Work by Railton includes panelled shutters and doors in moulded architraves, moulded cornicing and marble fireplaces. Room to centre of main south range has rococo-style marble fireplace, and a fine painted neo-classical style ceiling with modillioned cornice. Room to right has rococo marble fireplace, moulded cornice and panelling with medallions. Hall to rear of centre has modillioned cornicing, consoles framing entries to end vestibules and open-well staircase with barley-sugar balusters. Stained glass by Burges to right of front. Subsidiary Features: stable range to rear, of limestone ashlar and rubble with brick dressings to arches and pantile roofs; courtyard plan; elevations include ashlar door and casement window architraves, segmental brick arches to carriage entries, and bellcote to east range. History: Yatman had retired from his Yorkshire curacy to become squire of Winscombe in 1855. Railton, who designed the Nelson Memorial in Trafalgar Square, had designed a number of vaguely Italianate villas for the Ecclesiastical Commissioners between between 1838 and 1848. Yatman exhibited a remarkable change of taste by his appointment of Burges, one of the most celebrated and "roguish" Victorian Gothic architects who had earlier designed the east window in the Church of St James (qv). This remained as a private house until 1982, after which much painted furniture by Burges was sold by auction including the "Yatman cabinet" which is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Listing NGR: ST4181856075

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