Brawith Hall
BRAWITH HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1260588
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brawith Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BRAWITH HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1260588
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brawith Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAWITH 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:
- BRAWITH HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knayton with Brawith
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 41043 87287
Details
SE 48 NW KNAYTON WITH BRAWITH BRAWITH HALL 1/9 1.5.52 Brawith Hall GV II* Large house. First quarter C18 with later alterations and additions including rear range of later C19 on site of medieval manor. Red and pale brown brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings. Hipped, graduated Westmorland slate roof with brick stacks, concealed by parapet. Two storeys with high parapet. South front: red brick. Five bays with giant pilasters 1-3-1 on ashlar plinth. Three steps to central entrance. Part-glazed door in eaved architrave with consoles supporting a pediment with pulvinated frieze. Tall, narrow sashes with glazing bars in ashlar architraves with coved lintels and chamfered cills. Chamfered 1st floor band. Window to entrance bay in channelled surround. Cyma moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze to 1st floor and further cornice to parapet. East and west facades: pale brown brick with red brick parapet and ashlar dressing. Four bays. Sashes with glazing bars under gauged red brick flat arches. Two bays of east facade rebuilt in C20. Interior: staircase hall:cantilevered cut-string staircase with 3 different balusters of bulb and gadroon type per tread, ramped moulded handrail with Greek key motif, spiral curtail and turned newel with volute to foot. Panelled dado follows line of stair. Dentilled cornice to ground floor. Dome to 1st floor flanked by oblong panels, modillion cornice. Early C18 decorative schemes to south-east and south-west rooms. The latter has eared panelling above a dado and a dentil and modillion cornice. Sashes in projecting wave-moulded cases with cornices and shutters. Two 6-panel doors flanking chimney piece and a further one leading to the north-west room with panelled soffits in architraves with Greek key motif surmounted by dentil and modillion pediments with pulvinated bay-leaf friezes. Marble fireplace with overmantel flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The north-west room has slightly later decoration including good foliate carving.
Brawith Hall belonged to the Danby family in the first half of the C17. After the Civil War, in 1656, it passed into the hands of Edmund Barstow of Northallerton, a member of the same family. Bought in 1702 by Mrs Peacock, also of the same family, it has descended down the family to its present owners.
Listing NGR: SE4104387287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440246
- 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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