SCAMPSTON HALL AND GATEWAYS, WALLS AND TERMINAL PIERS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1315717
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1957
List Entry Name:: SCAMPSTON HALL AND GATEWAYS, WALLS AND TERMINAL PIERS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT
Statutory Address:: SCAMPSTON HALL AND GATEWAYS, WALLS AND TERMINAL PIERS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1315717
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1957
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: SCAMPSTON HALL AND GATEWAYS, WALLS AND TERMINAL PIERS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: SCAMPSTON HALL AND GATEWAYS, WALLS AND TERMINAL PIERS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT

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

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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.

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Statutory Address:: SCAMPSTON HALL AND GATEWAYS, WALLS AND TERMINAL PIERS ATTACHED TO SOUTH FRONT

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Scampston
National Grid Reference:: SE 86472 75529

Details

SCAMPSTON SCAMPSTON HALL ESTATE SE 87 NE 4/48 Scampston Hall and gateways, walls and terminal piers attached 20.9.57 to south front (formerly listed as "Scampston Hall") - II* Country house. Late C17 house built for William Hustler. Altered in late C18 for Sir William St Quintin, 5th Baronet. Remodelled in 1803 for Sir William Thomas St Quintin, 6th Baronet, by Thomas Leverton. Orange-red brick, lime-washed at rear, stuccoed on other fronts. Slate roof with stuccoed brick stacks. Gateways and terminal piers of sandstone ashlar. Entrance front (west): 2 storeys, 7 bays. Low plinth: 3 centre bays bowed behind a detached hemicycle of giant Tuscan columns in antis. Shallow steps up to paired double doors of ornamental panels in centre bays. All ground- floor windows are tall 12-pane sashes under console-bracketed floating cornices. First-floor windows are 9-pane sashes with stone sills. Moulded eaves cornice beneath parapet, balustraded over centre bays and flanking windows. Centre left and right stacks. Garden front (south): 2 storeys, 9 bays. Centre bow, articulated by giant Tuscan pilasters, has attic storey above, with dome. All windows are similar to those on entrance front. Moulded eaves cornice beneath parapet, balustraded over windows. 6-pane sashes to domed attic. Left- and right-of centre stacks to hipped roof. Bellcote at summit of right hip. Rear: radial-glazed staircase window at right. Other openings have flat arches. Gateways, walls and terminal piers: gateway approximately 2.9 metres high; segmental arch with fasciated keystone in rusticated triple surround; moulded cornice, arched over opening between ball-and-pedestal finials. Walls on each side of gateways, approximately 1.9 metres high, with moulded coping. Terminal piers of rebated square bands of rustication with moulded cornices and ball-and- pedestal finials. Interior: south side west drawing room has moulded frieze and cornice. Centre library has built-in bookcases between Tuscan pilasters and Tuscan columns in scagliola flanking the bow window; moulded frieze and cornice. East dining room has plaster-panelled walls with beaded mouldings; sideboard recess framed by Tuscan columns with entablature. North side at west end an open-string, imperial staircase, with diamond-trellis panels alternating with 3 stick balusters, and moulded handrail wreathed at the foot. East end small library with built-in bookcases. All the main ground- floor rooms have fine panelled mahogany doors of a type used by Thomas Leverton elsewhere. Arthur Oswald, "Scampston Hall, Yorkshire, I and II", Country Life, 1st and 8th April 1954.

Listing NGR: SE8647275529

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Legacy System number:: 329388
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Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 8 April, (1954)
'Country Life' in 1 April, (1954)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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