Sion Hill Hall and Attached Courtyard Wall

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KIRBY WISKE GREEN LANE

SE 38 SE (south side, off) 5/10 Sion Hill Hall and attached courtyard wall - II *

Country house and attached courtyard wall. 1913 by W H Brierley for Mr Percy Stancliffe. Hand-made red brick in English bond, Portland stone dressings, plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Main front: central 3 bays set back, wing to right of 4 bays, wing to left of 6 bays. Central 3 bays: central bay,of Portland stone, has panelled door and overlight with intersecting glazing bars in eared architrave with keystones set in Ionic doorcase with open round-headed pediment bearing date 1913; window above has eared architrave, scrolled to bottom. To either side on ground floor a Venetian window with segmental brick relieving arch. First-floor band, continuing across rest of front. First-floor casement windows with glazing bars. Right wing, breaking forward: brick quoins, 3 left-hand bays have sashes; right-hand bay breaking forward, oculus with glazing bars to first floor. Left wing: brick quoins. 3 right-hand bays similar to left-hand bays of right wing. Next bay to left breaks forward and the right return has a 6-panel door set in moulded architrave with double keystone and sash with glazing bars above. To left, 2 bays break further forward and have sashes with glazing bars, those to ground floor under flat brick arches. Servants wing further to left. An attached contemporary brick wall forms a courtyard to this front. Front section of wall is low, stone-coped, with wooden railings above and has central brick gate piers with stone cornices and ball finials. Garden front: 12 bays. All windows, except those to servants wing, have contemporary louvred shutters. Central 4 bays have fully-glazed French windows to ground floor and first-floor sashes with glazing bars. Flanking bays break forward and have brick quoins and a sash with glazing bars to each floor, the upper one flanked by blank oculi with moulded terracotta surrounds. Further to left, 2 bays having brick quoins to left; a half- glazed door with overlight to right; sashes with glazing bars; and a central oculus to first floor. To right: 4-bay servants' wing similar. Oversailing eaves. Roofs hipped. Chimneys to ridges with plinths, friezes, cornices and blocking courses. Large chimney above central door has recessed, keyed, blank arch. Interior: entrance hall has quoin-vaulted ceiling and round-arched doors with moulded eared architraves. Dogleg staircase with balusters of barley-twist and bulb-and-umbrella type. Boudoir: panelled; an C18 marble fireplace with eared architrave; 2 shell niches. Dining room has a large C18 white marble fireplace with Ionic columns, probably from the former hall that stood on this site. All the other rooms are quite plain, but have deep plain cornices, and simple C18- type fireplaces with moulded architraves. This house is generally regarded as one of Brierley's most successful country houses, supposed to be loosely- based on Middlefield House, Cambridgeshire designed by Edward Lutyens in 1908. Clive Aslet, 'Red Brick Classicism, the Country Houses of W H Brierley, II', Country Life, Sept 30, 1982, pp 974-977.

Listing NGR: SE3734184424

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Country Life in 30 September, (1982), 974-977

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