British Listed Buildings

Listing Text

NZ51SE GUISBOROUGH HUTTON LOWCROSS

4/94 Hutton Hall,
conservatory,
kitchen-
courtyard and
gatehouse

II

Large country mansion in landscaped park. 1866 on tablet above
main entrance porch. Alfred Waterhouse for J.W. Pease. Red brick,
stone dressings, steeply pitched hipped and gabled Welsh slate roofs
with bands of fish scales. Ornamental cast iron ridge crestings.
13 stacks of banded brick and stone. High Victorian Gothic.
2 storeys. Principal (S) elevation: balanced asymmetry in 7 bays
(a, b, c, d, e, f, g). Forward projections: octagonal and pyramidal
roofed at 'a', rectangular and gabled at 'd' and 'g'. Narrow slate
canopy on timber brackets, between floors, across 'a', 'b', 'c', and
Sash windows with stone mullions and irregular quoin surrounds.
Attic gablets to 'b' and 'f'; gabled dormer to 'c', relieving arches
to first floor windows of 'e' and 'f'; first floor canted oriel
window to 'g' with corbelling to underside. Entrance is at rear
(N) in single-storey gabled porch with moulded equilateral arch.
Large dilapidated, split-level conservatory adjoins the E. side
of Hutton Hall. Brick with stone dressings, glazed roof has largely
collapsed. Contemporary with Hall. Asymmetrical with segmental-
arched openings and pinnacles to pierced parapet. Internal double
arcade of semi-circular arches on twisted fluted columns. Kitchen
courtyard attached to N.E. side of Hutton Hall, with Gothic Tudor
gatehouse with circular bartizan to R.H.S. Interior of Hall largely
unaltered. 2 principal reception rooms with plaster panelled
ceilings. Pointed arcade between inner hall and open-well staircase.
Contemporary stained and painted glass to windows in W. and N. eleva-
tions.


Listing NGR: NZ5994014514

Source: English Heritage

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