Rushpool Hall
RUSHPOOL HALL, SALTBURN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251344
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Rushpool Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RUSHPOOL HALL, SALTBURN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1251344
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Rushpool Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUSHPOOL HALL, SALTBURN LANE
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:
- RUSHPOOL HALL, SALTBURN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Skelton and Brotton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 66544 20541
Details
NZ 62 SE SKELTON & BROTTON SALTBURN LANE (off west side,) Skelton
1/36 Rushpool Hall 8.10.75 G.V. II*
Mansion, now hotel, 1862-63, for John Bell, ironmaster. Interior partly remodelled after fire damage 1904/05, by T.M. Bottomley (Middlesbrough). Rockfaced Cleveland ironstone with sandstone ashlar dressings inlaid with slate ornament. Plain clay tiled roofs. High Victorian Gothic. 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical; 5 bays to entrance front (south). The middle bay a projecting 3-stage tower over porch, with round-headed doorway in chamfered, pointed opening with foliate capitals to responds. Ornate metal lanterns on posts flank the doorway. Oriel window to middle stage, enriched with carving. Tripartite upper-stage windows. Crocketed finials at angles of straight parapet, and metal ridge cresting on tall hipped roof. Coupled octagonal stacks at north-east angle. 2-storey canted bay window to left-end bay. All windows grouped pointed sashes. Ornamental shields above ground-floor windows, quatrefoils above first-floor windows. Sill strings and string courses between floors. Straight parapet; crowstepped gable to right end. Steeply-pitched hipped and gabled roofs have tall stacks and enriched roof dormers of varied form. Lower 2-storey service wing, adjoining right end is similar, with 6 pointed openings (middle 2 blank) below canted first-floor oriel. Straight parapet, ornamented stack at right end, and enriched roof dormers. 4-bay garden front (north) has tripartite windows on each floor, except for wider 2-storey half-octagonal right-hand bay with roof dormers to half-pyramidal roof. Chamfered left angle has first-floor balcony with pierced front. Circular 3-stage tower adjoins north-west angle, and has broad bands between stages, bracketed, pierced parapet, and tall conical roof with gablets. Renewed conservatory in keeping adjoins west end, To west of mansion: retaining wall of terrace with pierced parapet, gargoyles, and stair flights at north and south ends, forms frontage to basement Roman bath and contains remains of grotto with quasi-Tuscan columns at south end. Well-preserved interior retains large staircase hall with open stair and gallery, and baroque fireplace of 1897; panelled ceilings with thick raised borders and ornamented cornices. Series of Moorish arches lead to conservatory retaining original tiled pavement. Oak-panelled first-floor billiard room; many carved marble fireplaces retained throughout. Modern fittings blend with original. Tiled Roman bath with ancilliary rooms, at lower level beneath terrace and conservatory.
Listing NGR: NZ6654420541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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