Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bell Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17530666

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