Description

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NY 30 SE
3/187

SKELWITH, Clappersgate
B5286 (East side)
Brathay Hall

25.3.70

II

House, now training centre. Late C18. Ashlar with plastered returns and rear; hipped slate roofs. Centre of 3 storeys and 5 bays has wings of one storey with attic and 3 bays. Band over ground floor and 1st floor sill band, top cornice; wings have top cornice and blocking course. Windows are sashed, with glazing bars and margin lights, wing to right has French windows flanking a blind window, both wings have small attic lights under cornice. Entrance has glazed doorcase with 4-fielded-panel door; bowed porch has 4 unfluted Doric columns with leaf capitals, frieze, cornice and blocking course. Right return of 3 bays, the central bay recessed, the flanking bays with tripartite windows and segmental tympana. Left return has later extensions of no special interest. Rear has central bowed bay with tripartite stair window; projecting wings. Gable end stacks to wings and return lateral stacks to centre. Interior has open-well flying stair with stick balusters, some remaining cornices and fireplaces; Founder's room has plaster panelling dado rail and cornice with vases, swags etc. Fireplace with columns and cast iron grate; angle pilasters to window.

Listing NGR: NY3665703108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26379666

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)