Bell Hall
BELL HALL, B1222
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1296999
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BELL HALL, B1222
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1296999
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL HALL, B1222
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:
- BELL HALL, B1222
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Naburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 59966 43747
Details
NABURN B1222 SE 54 SE (east side, off) 8/86 Bell Hall 25.10.51 GV I House. Dated 1680 above doors with later additions and alterations including C19 kitchen wing to right. Attributed to John Etty for Sir John Hewley. Pinkish-orange brick with ashlar dressings, rendered basement and slate roof. Double pile Carolean house. 2 storeys with basement and attic, 5 bays, with 3-bay returns and recessed single storey, single-bay wing. Quoins. Basement. 2-light mullion windows with casements. Cyma reversa hoods. Ashlar ground-floor band. Central flight of steps (with cast-iron boot scrapers) which interupts basement to C19 glazed double doors with 8-pane overlight in eared architrave within pilastered doorcase with acanthus consoles supporting broken segmental pediment containing early C20 sundial. 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors with moulded sills and beneath flat arches of red rubbed brick, and with ashlar keystones to ground floor. Window bays project slightly. Moulded first floor band projecting as cornice over windows. Lead rainwater heads and fall-pipes. Timber cornice. 3 pedimented roof dormers with 6-pane sashes. Hipped roof with central well. Left return is similar with late C19 central flight of steps surmounted by earlier ball finials and urns to 8-fielded-panel door in similar surround. Rear similar but with no door. Right return has two original windows to first floor. Fine interior survives throughout and includes bolection moulded panelling to most rooms, that to first floor sitting room has mainly C17 and C18 paintings to panels. Study to ground floor has 2 C17 over-door paintings on panels. Framed newel staircase has onion-on-vase balusters. Rear dog-leg service staircase has vase balusters. Entrance hall: Elizabethan overmantel with some alterations and additions brought from Deighton Hall c.1890. Further late C17 and some C18 fireplaces to most rooms including overmantel to ground floor left hand room with carved fruit and foliage reputed to be by Etty and brought (c.1750) from a house in Saint Saviourgate, York. Some rooms have embellished cornices. 6- and 8-panel doors to most rooms. Ground floor windows have shutters. Priest's hole to green bedroom. Sources: Country Life, 17th June, 1922. Linstrum, D., West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, 1978, p.376. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p.314.
Listing NGR: SE5996643747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326199
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 376
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 314
Country Life in 17 June, (1922)
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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