Goldsborough Hall
GOLDSBOROUGH HALL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1315586
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Goldsborough Hall
- Statutory Address:
- GOLDSBOROUGH HALL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1315586
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Goldsborough Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOLDSBOROUGH HALL, CHURCH STREET
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:
- GOLDSBOROUGH HALL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goldsborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 38361 56048
Details
SE 35 NE GOLDSBOROUGH CHURCH STREET (south side, off)
3/20 Goldsborough Hall 8.3.52 GV II*
Country house, now nursing home. c1625 for Sir Richard Hutton, with alterations mid C18 for Robert Byerley and afterwards by John Carr for Daniel Lascelles. Extensive restorations and conversions in mid to late C20. Sandstone and red brick, random bond, with ashlar details. Westmorland slate roof. 3 storeys with cellars, oblong plan 5 bays wide by 3 bays deep. Central 2-storey porch has round arch flanked by paired, fluted, Tuscan pilasters of ashlar, heavily restored. A plain entablature above, with moulded cornice which is continued around the building as a moulded string above ground-floor window level. Flanking bays have rectangular windows with C20 cross-frames. Bays 1 and 5 have C18 canted bay windows with flat-faced mullions and C20 frames, to ground and first floors. A balustrade above the 1st-floor windows continues across the porch top. The second floor has 3 gables containing 6-light chamfered mullion and transom windows with hoodmoulds. Small oculi above. The face of the wall is carried up between the gables to form a plain parapet above window height which conceals the stacks. Badge of Daniel Lascelles (d 1784) above entrance. Lead rainwater pipes and heads with Lascelles badge. Ball finials to outer corners of parapet. Weather vane on central, gable. Rear (west) elevation has large, central mullion and transom windows lighting the staircase. Smaller windows to remaining rooms, and occuli to gables. C20 lean-to addition ground floor left. Left return (garden front): large mid C20 conservatory ground floor, centre. Flanking C18 bay windows continue to 2nd storey and have balustrade above. Right return: C20 ground-and first- floor entrances with external steps. Mullion and transom windows. Interior: ground floor, right: dining room - early C17 marble chimney piece with caryatids and 2 panels with Old Testament scenes. Badges of Princess Mary and Henry Lascelles superimposed onto lower frieze. Fluted wooden Ionic columns flank bay window. Ground floor, left -drawing room has C18 marble fireplace and moulded plaster coving to ceiling with acanthus leaves. The library (south-west corner) is panelled and has an elaborate plaster ceiling with oak and vine motifs in strapwork panels. The framed oak staircase of 4 flights is C17 and has turned balusters, square newel posts with elaborate finials, and moulded hand rail. C20 lift shaft and kitchens are in the north-west corner of the ground floor. First floor - eastern range of rooms has Adam-style plasterwork to ceilings, and a false ceiling above the southerly room hides an elaborate coved and decorated ceiling. South-west room is panelled, with a frieze of winged mermaids and masks below a ceiling with strapwork and small panels containing flowers and pomegranites, in blue and gold. Although the major alterations to the house would appear to have been made after the purchase by Daniel Lascelles in 1760, a pencil sketch of plaster mouldings found on the north reveal of the dining room bay window and dated July 1743 suggests that some of the work was begun before that time, including the construction of the bay windows. John Carr worked on Goldsborough in 1762-65 while employed on Harewood House by Edwin Lascelles. Chippendale and his successor, William Reid, are also known to have made furniture for Goldsborough Hall. In 1922 the heir to Harewood, Henry Lascelles, married Princess Mary, daughter of King George V and they lived at Goldsborough until 1929. Much of the internal decoration, possibly including the panelling, dates from this time. Since then the hall has been a school, a hotel and a nursing home and little of the original C17 house remains. Anon, "Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire," Country Life, October 15th 1904, pp 558-560. W.A. Atkinson, A Short Account of Goldsborough and its Neighbourhood. C. Kennedy, Harewood, Hutchinson 1982.
Listing NGR: SE3836156048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330683
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kennedy, C, Harewood, (1982)
Atkinson, W A, A Short Account of Goldsborough and its Neighbourhood, (1922)
Country Life in 15 October, (1904), 558-60
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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