HOWSHAM HALL

HOWSHAM HALL, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1315992
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: HOWSHAM HALL
Statutory Address:: HOWSHAM HALL, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1315992
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: HOWSHAM HALL
Statutory Address 1:: HOWSHAM HALL, MAIN STREET

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:: HOWSHAM HALL, MAIN STREET

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Howsham
National Grid Reference:: SE 73418 63134

Details

HOWSHAM MAIN STREET SE 76 SW (north end) 5/67 Howsham Hall 20.9.51 GV I

Country house, now school. c1610 with earlier origins, with alterations to east front c1709 and refurbishment of interior during 1770's. Jacobean work for Sir William Bamburgh; east front for Sir John Wentworth; late C18 refurbishment for Nathaniel Cholmley, possibly by John Carr or Peter Atkinson. Limestone ashlar with brick servants' wing, Westmorland slate roofs. U-shaped plan with servants wing forming fourth side of square to rear. South front in Jacobean Renaissance style. 2 storeys and cellar, 7 bays including projecting full height central porch and canted outer bays. Double door beneath radial fanlight in architrave flanked by paired Ionic columns on pedestals carrying plain entablature, with paired Corinthian columns above flanking single-transomed 4-light mullion window and panel bearing arms of Sir William Bamburgh impaling those of his wife, Mary Forthe of Butley, Suffolk. Otherwise double-transomed 4-light mullion windows, except for 12-light windows to canted bays arranged 2:2:4:2:2. Parapet with merlons and ball finials to each main front. West front, probably Elizabethan in date with alterations to right, is of 3 storeys with Tudor- arched doorway and irregular fenestration of 2-light and 4-light double- chamfered mullion and transom windows with flat hood-moulds, those to right in wooden frames. East front: 2 storeys, 6 bays. 15-pane unequal sashes to ground floor, 18-pane sashes to first floor. Series of lead downpipes to each front, ornamented with pendants of fruit, and Wentworth griffins and leopard's heads, one to west front dated 1709. Servants' wing to rear: 2 storeys, 7 bays with Venetian windows to outer bays and casements and fixed windows throughout. Dentilled eaves course and hipped roof with ridge stacks. Interior: main hall has 2 Roman Doric columns in place of former screen dividing entry from hall proper, which has entablature with frieze of fret pattern and bucrania. To left of hall, the assembly room has richer decoration, with Ionic pilasters along the wall carrying frieze with anthemion and candelabra motifs, and Corinthian columns to mullions of bay window. Fireplace of white and verde antico marble with frieze of ribbon ornament, attributed to Fisher of York. Staircase hall to rear of main hall has open-string staircase with slim turned balusters, supported on Tuscan columns. Dining room (now a classroom): earlier decoration, probably contemporary with remodelling of east front. Heavy panelling to dado level, with acanthus cornice and doorcases comparable to those at Beningborough Hall and possibly by Thornton. First-floor saloon has fine Adam-style stucco ceiling, and an inlaid marble fireplace. In the west range is an early kitchen, now a study, with 2 large Tudor-arched fireplaces. One bedroom contains original William Morris wallpaper. Country Life, April 1905. Country Life, August 1935. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE7341863134

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Legacy System number:: 328771
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972)
'Country Life' in April, (1905)
'Country Life' in August, (1935)

Legal

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