Sawley Hall
SAWLEY HALL, FOUNTAINS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251464
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sawley Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SAWLEY HALL, FOUNTAINS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251464
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sawley Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAWLEY HALL, FOUNTAINS ROAD
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:
- SAWLEY HALL, FOUNTAINS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 25635 66809
Details
SAWLEY FOUNTAINS ROAD SE 26 NE (south side, off)
5/131 Sawley Hall 6.3.67
GV II
House and stables. Late C18 with mid-late C19 alterations. For the Norton family of Grantley. Gritstone plinth, coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, rendered; Westmorland slate roof. Rusticated quoins. House of 2½ storeys, 7 x 5 bays with rear service wing of 2 storeys and 4 bays; courtyard on left (west side) enclosed by 2-storey, approximately 8-bay stable and service ranges with entrance on the west side, centre. House: central double doors of 6 moulded panels flanked by attached Doric columns; corniced pediment. Central bay flanked by giant Ionic pilasters with paterae, entablature and deep moulded cornice. Windows: all in architraves: ground and first floors: sashes with glazing bars; attic storey: square 6-pane sashes. Blocking course; hipped roof; 3 stacks: to left, to centre behind ridge, and to right, forward of ridge. Rear: projecting service wing right, large central Venetian stair window centre; C20 added kitchen range, left, not of special interest. Left return (from courtyard): projecting C19 services right, central glazed door, sashes as front; kitchen wing to left: gabled porch left, sash with glazing bars right, 9-pane sash above, and large Venetian window with glazing bars right again; 2 small roof lights to left and right, and raised ventilator. Right return: central glazed door flanked by sashes as front; to left: lead rainwater pipe with boars head badge in relief; bay to right: rendering renewed and top 2 windows have C20 frames. Courtyard: west range, west side (entrance): central segmental carriage arch in quoined surround, panelled double gates; board door with 8-pane overlight far right, inserted 2-light window ground floor left; bays 2 and 6, first floor: pitching doors with plain sills and lintels. West range, east side: flanking garage doors, ventilators above. North range, south side: 3 evenly-spaced board doors, 6 x 16-pane sashes, projecting sills and lintels, 12-pane windows to upper floor. South range: C19 door and fenestration, front and rear. Interior, house: large central entrance hall: fireplace on right has wooden surround carved with acanthus leaves and swags. Dado panelling in moulded surrounds. Front room, right (library): marble fireplace, ceiling frieze and bookcases decorated with classical motifs. Rear room, right (drawing room): black and white marble fireplace, large panels to walls with paterae, urns and swags; dentilled ceiling cornice. Front room, left (dining room): former paired doors from hall, one blocked, access also from north service corridor with green baize door to entrance hall centre; east end (to hall) 4 columns support cross beam; west end: apsidal recess with fitted 2-tier sideboard flanked by pilasters and semicircular-arched recesses with cornice, frieze and scrolls to spandrels; shelf at dado level. 3 windows on south side have original shutters and gilded pelmets with carved decoration of flower swags and ribbons; fireplace on north wall has wooden surround with husk decoration and relief of quiver and scrolls and moulded brackets supporting deep corniced mantelshelf. 6- panel doors throughout. Staircase to rear of hall of 3 straight flights; Venetian window flanked by fluted pilasters, dado as hall; balusters of slender column-type on elaborate turned bases, square-section newels and ramped handrail. Stair well ceiling has a circular rose of acanthus leaves with husk and scroll motifs. Landing ceiling supported by 2 wooden fluted Ionic columns. Rear wing: the former kitchen is a large square room with opposing stone arched fireplaces and high ceiling with central ventilator and a hatch-way in the south end of the east wall to the corridor leading to the dining room. Interior court ard west range: C20 reconstruction of stables at south end; courtyard north range: loose boxes and stalls with C19 partitions and mangers.
Listing NGR: SE2563566809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434179
- 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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