Hollin Hall

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SE 36 NW LITTLETHORPE HARROGATE ROAD (east side, off)

6/43 Hollin Hall 6.3.67

GV II*

Country house. Late C17, possibly for Sir William Thomson, with alterations early C19 for Richard Wood. Red brick, stuccoed and painted, ashlar dressings, stone slate roof to main ranges; coursed rubble and brick with pantile roofs to outbuildings. Quoins. A complicated plan composed of: 1) a 2-storey, L-shaped principal range with east (entrance) front of 5 bays, and a south front with 6 first-floor windows. 2) 2-storey L-shaped kitchen and service wing attached to the north end of the rear of the entrance range, 3 bays to each side. A single-storey corridor links the kitchen in this range to the dining-room in the south-facing block. 3) L- shaped range of single- and 2-storey outbuildings attached to the north end of the main (east) front and enclosing the north and east sides of a courtyard with the service range enclosing the south and west sides. A wall with double gateway links the outbuildings to the service range north end. Entrance front: quoins to end bays, these and central bay projecting slightly. Central C20 glazed door with fanlight flanked by narrow windows in Tuscan portico of paired columns supporting entablature, deep cornice and blocking course. Paired 8-pane sashes above. Other windows sashes with glazing bars and projecting stone sills, those to bays 2 and 4 have lower sills and are of 15 panes. 2 glazed blind windows ground-floor left. Ashlar first-floor band, wooden dentilled eaves cornice, blocking course cut by triangular pediment with oeil de boeuf over central bay. Steeply-pitched roof with hips over outer bays. Ridge stacks between bays 1 and 2, 3 and 4. Rear: central round-arched staircase window, 16-pane sashes and C19 casements. A steeply-pitched gable, left (partly obscured by attached service range) and centre, both have gable copings. Left return, south front: quoins to left. Tall 15-pane sashes to ground floor, sashes with glazing-bars above, the window to right blind. First-floor band, cornice and blocking course as east front. Service range, west side, has tripartite windows, servant's bell on hipped roof and 2 ridge stacks. High wall attached to left has segmental carriage arch with board double doors. Courtyard: north range - 2-storey block left, pigeon loft over. Right- opening with wooden lintel flanked by segmental-arched cart entrances; dentilled eaves cornice, pent roof. West range: board doors and small-paned windows to privy on left, wash house, fuel stores to centre and right, all under pent roof. Interior: main (east) range: central entrance hall has stone floor and egg and dart ceiling moulding. Fine carved wooden fireplaces to morning room, library, drawing room and study, the motifs on the latter repeated in glass-fronted cabinet against west wall. Other good fireplaces to first floor. Dentilled cornice of morning room, moulded cornice to drawing room, elaborate diamond-shaped ceiling-moulding to dining room. Ground-floor doors are of 6 fielded panels; all windows have panelled rebates and shutters; fireplaces have original cast-iron grates. Staircase has plain balusters with moulded mahogany handrail rising in 2 straight flights to landing with 2 fluted columns in antis and with acanthus-like decoration to capitals. A curved 'balcony' links the first-floor east and south landings. First-floor room on left has some C17 panelling and narrow stair next to chimney, giving access to a room hidden within the roof space. Hollin Close Hall is recorded in the Ripon Cathedral registers in 1589. It passed in 1649 to the Thomson family and in 1719 to John Wood of Copmanthorpe whose descendant Richard (d 1815) made extensive alterations to the house c1811 and changed the name to Hollin Hall. Family papers record that the foundations of the 'new dining room' were laid 4 June 1811,this probably comprising the western 3 bays of the south range. A painting of c1700 kept at the hall shows this front with 5 windows and much narrower overall than the present facade,and internal changes and differences suggest that the south facade was refenestrated when the addition was made. Other alterations made by Richard Wood are: addition of portico, lowering of window sills on east front, rendering (not shown in early picture) concealing the refenestration, renewal of eaves cornice and probably the construction of the rear service range and alteration to the courtyard. Although such alterations are drastic, the east facade retains a strong similarity to the west front of Newby Hall (c1695, only 2 miles to the east), omitting the third storey and with triangular rather than segmental pediment.

Listing NGR: SE3131767286

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