GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES

GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES, GLEDESTONE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1296985
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES
Statutory Address:: GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES, GLEDESTONE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1296985
Date first listed:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES
Statutory Address 1:: GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES, GLEDESTONE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GLEDESTONE HALL AND FORECOURT WALLS, PAVILIONS AND GATES, GLEDESTONE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Martons Both
National Grid Reference:: SD 88685 51277

Details

SD 85 SE MARTONS BOTH GLEDSTONE ROAD (east side)

1/110 Gledstone Hall including forecourt walls, pavilions and gates (formerly listed as Gledstone Hall)

GV II*

Large house now in multiple occupation, 1922-6 by Sir Edwin Lutyens for Sir Amos Nelson. Sandstone ashlar (from Salterforth) and Cotswold stone slates. Two storeys, but with an unusually tall and prominent roof. A double pile with centre- piece and end pavilions, linked by flank walls to separate lodge pavilions which define the forecourt. The entrance front is of thirteen bays, each end pavilion being a single bay. The central three come forward as a pedimented portico, distyle is antis, with arched side walls. Consoled doorway. The windows are all casements set in sunk vertical panels, with small panes below and large above. The garden front is of eleven bays on a similar arrangement, but without the central break, there being only a pediment and a consoled doorcase. From the second to the fourth, and the eighth to the tenth bays there are single-storey colonnades of Doric columns in antis. To either side, against the rear walls of the service blocks, there are single-storey pedimented garden features, tetra- style with central arches breaking the base cornice. The forecourt is rectangular, with fine ornamental wrought iron gates at the north end (the overthrow carrying the Nelson arms). These are flanked by four large piers carrying urns. Similar piers flank the side entrances and are suggested by rusticated bands on the walls of the kitchen and garages which come forward of the main house. The kitchen is marked by an arched Vanbrughian chimneystack. Minor piers carry balls. Wing walls run to two lodges or pavilions, each two storeyed with pyramidal roofs and central chimneys. One window and door (with consoled pediment) on the outer face, one window below and two above on the inner face. Interior: The circulation areas are heavily articulated to give a greater effect of space. Entry is to a Doric columned vestibule with rusticated lintels, and much of the northern side of the ground floor is taken up with a vaulted passageway which has a floor of white and black inlaid marble. Off this opens a stair in the same material, of three open flights under a large elliptical arch. The centre of the south side is a further Doric hall with green marble columns and a similar floor. The remaining rooms are simple, with heavily moulded ceilings in circular patterns. That to the right of the hall has a fireplace of dark green and white marble. One of the last houses of its size to be built from new by Lutyens, foreshadowing his Middleton Park, Oxfordshire. It has been called "one of his finest and most sensitive houses". Daniel O'Neill: Sir Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses, 1980, p144.

Listing NGR: SD8868551277

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Legacy System number:: 324489
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
O'Neill, D, Sir Edwin Lutyens Country Houses, (1980), 144

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.