Description

PATRINGTON NICHOLSON'S LANE
TA 22 SE
(south side, off)
Winestead
6/47 The Old Rectory and
coach-house adjoining to
4-3-52 east
(formerly listed
16-12-66 seperately)

GV II

Rectory and adjoining coach-house. House: C17 origins, alterations of 1728
for Christopher Hildyard, alterations and north-west drawing room wing of
1775 for Francis Drake, alterations and addition to rear of c1825, C19 bay
windows. C20 alterations for Col R A Alec-Smith include interior
alterations and repositioning entrance and windows to create symmetrical
front in 1948, addition of north-east kitchen wing in 1954-5. Coach-house
of 1804 for Rev William Hildyard. House: main range in red brick (in
English bond to gable ends); brown brick to north-west wing. Red brick to
coach-house. Pantile roofs throughout. House approximately U-shaped on
plan: 3-room south front with wide central hall containing staircase to left
and inserted central entrance (entrance formerly to left of centre),
drawing-room wing to rear left; rear outshuts and C20 kitchen wing to rear
right, adjoining L-shaped coach-house. Small walled courtyards to rear.
House: 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays; symmetrical, with projecting full-
height square outer bays with canted bay windows. Entrance has stone step
with moulded nosing to recessed half-glazed fielded-panel door in shouldered
architrave with stepped key bearing crest in oval medallion, pulvinated
frieze and dentilled pediment. Datestone over door inscribed 1728. 3
central bays have 12-pane flush sashes (those to first floor slightly
shorter) with sills and rubbed-brick flat arches with raised ashlar
keystones inscribed with Alec-Smith monogram and dated 1948. Flat-roofed
full-height bay windows have 12-pane sashes to front, 8-pane sashes to
sides, sills, moulded wooden cornices. Dentilled brick eaves cornice.
Tumbled-in brick to raised gables. Axial and end stacks. Left return:
similar ground-floor sash and unequal 9-pane attic sash to front range, 2-
bay wing has slightly-recessed 12-pane sashes with sills and stucco flat
arches incised in imitation of rubbed brick, stepped eaves, tumbled-in brick
to raised gables with shaped stone kneelers. Coach-house set back to right:
single-storey with attic, 3 bays. Central carriage entrance with double
board doors flanked by single door to left, 8-pane sliding sash and board
door beneath 3-pane overlight to right. All openings with segmental arches,
doors with wrought-iron strap hinges. Tumbled-in brick to raised right
gable. Right return has 12-pane ground-floor sash, first-floor board door
and small triangular opening to gable with projecting shelf; pair of stable
doors to later single-storey rear wing. Interior. House retains original
1775 dentilled cornice to drawing room, and staircase of 1728 (perhaps re-
set), with exposed tread-ends, ramped corniced hand-rail, column newels and
alternating column-on-vase and twist-on-vase balusters with square knops.
Many other features such as panelling, doors and chimney-pieces were brought
from Hull and Winestead Red Hall in the 1940s and 1950s. Among the most
notable are the early C18 library 2-fold doors in architraves from Winestead
Red Hall, and fitted bookshelves, ornate chimney-piece, overmantel and
dentilled cornice from Etherington Buildings, Hull; dentilled chimney-piece
in entrance hall from Etherington Buildings; the drawing room carved doors
and architraves, chimney-piece and overmantel from 37 High Street, Hull; the
elaborate west bedroom chimney-piece (from 20 High Street, Hull) and door
architraves with open pediments and urns in the same room; ornate chimney-
pieces to nursery and east bedroom. Interior of coach-house: room to right
contains re-set C18 stone chimney-piece with carved overmantel and cornice,
half-domed alcove with keyed archivolt, fluted pilasters and dentilled
cornice. In 1616 the rectory, containing hall and chamber, was decayed; in
1672 there were 5 hearths. Andrew Marvell, the poet, was born in Winestead
Rectory in 1620-21, but it is uncertain whether parts of this building are
incorporated in the present house, though plan and wall thicknesses clearly
suggest its C17 origins. R A Alec-Smith, "Winestead Rectory", c1965, (ms
book in the house); R A Alec-Smith, "Winestead", Transactions of the
Georgian Society for East Yorkshire, vol 1, pt III, 1939-46, 44-5; J
Cornforth, Country Life, 14 January 1965; J Cornforth, The Inspiration of
the Past: Country House taste in the Twentieth Century, 1985, 139-42.

Listing NGR: TA2992024155

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26365186

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