Kirkby Fleetham Hall
KIRKBY FLEETHAM HALL, KIRKBY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295737
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkby Fleetham Hall
- Statutory Address:
- KIRKBY FLEETHAM HALL, KIRKBY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1295737
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkby Fleetham Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRKBY FLEETHAM HALL, KIRKBY 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:
- KIRKBY FLEETHAM HALL, KIRKBY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Fleetham with Fencote
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2813695673
Details
SE 29 NE
1/57
22.8.66
KIRKBY FLEETHAM WITH FENCOTE
KIRKBY LANE
(north side off)
Kirkby Fleetham Hall
(formerly listed as Kirkby Hall)
GV
II*
Country house. Mid/late C18 with earlier origins. Mostly rebuilt in later
C18 for William Aislabie for his daughter, Ann Sophie, heiress of Studley
Royal, near Ripon. Then sold to the Courage family. Ashlar, rendered,
stone dressings, graduated stone slate and lead roofs. Main block: 2
storeys plus basement and attics, 7 bays, 1:5:1. To left a linking wall and
1 bay pavilion, to right a 1-storey, 3-bay wing. Main block: 4 steps up to
double half-glazed door in stone architrave and Doric surround with frieze
and cornice. Continuous sill band. 2 bays to either side have sashes with
glazing bars in stone surrounds with cornices. Outer bays break forward and
have exposed ashlar strips to corners. Each has Venetian window with
glazing bars in stone surround, set in round-arched recess, plain ashlar
apron below the sill band. First floor: sashes with glazing bars in stone
surrounds with sills, apart from that above door which is a tripartite
window with similar surround and sashes, but with central light cambered.
Cornice and blocking course to central 5 bays. Outer bays pedimented with
moulded cornices. 5 central bays have 6-pane sash dormer windows. Roofs
hipped with ridge stacks. Left-hand side: ramped linking wall of 1 bay, to
left a 6-panel door with overlight. Sashes with glazing bars to right and
above to left. To right on first floor a small 8-pane sash. All openings
in stone surrounds. To left a 1 bay pavilion breaks forward. C20 garage
door, above a sash with glazing bars. Roof hipped with domed cupola with
bell, Doric columns, frieze and cornice. To right of main block a 1-storey
wing: to left a 6-panel door, to its right 2 sashes with glazing bars with
small 4-pane window between. North front: 11 bays, central 5 bays similar
to main front except ground-floor has full-height 18-pane sashes and first
floor has smaller 6-pane casements, outer 3 bays to either side bowed and
projecting forward, 18-pane ground-floor sashes, 12-pane sashes over.
Interior: servants' staircase of c1785 with thin turned balusters. Main
staircase of the C19. Some doorcases in Adam style with decorated friezes
and cornices. Dining room has good painted Neoclassical fireplace with
painted scenes in panels. Bowed rooms to either side retain original
cornices.
Listing NGR: SE2813695673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332341
- 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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