Description

REDCAR KIRKLEATHAM
NZ 52 SE
4/62 Old Hall Museum (formerly
14.6.52 listed as Kirkleatham
Old Hall
- II*

School, 1708/09, probably by Robert Hooke. Roof renewed c.1900; restored and
C18 and C19 extensions removed 1978-1984. Now a museum. Sandstone ashlar
centre and basement; brick with sandstone dressings to wings and rear.
Welsh slate roof and rebuilt brick stacks. "H"-plan with central school
flanked by houses for master and usher. Tall single-storey, 3-bay centre,
flanked by 2-storey, 2-bay, slightly-projecting wings; all with attic storey
and basement. Central giant Roman Doric order, with triglyphs and guttae,
under continuous heavily-moulded cornice. Pilaster strips to attic storey
and basement. Round-headed central doorway up 6 semicircular steps :
renewed 4-panel double doors, cornice head and fanlight with glazing bars in
panelled reveal; architrave and chamfered-rusticated surround with impost
strings and double keystone. Marble tablet above with inscription recording
school foundation. Flanking paired circular windows, with architraves and
radial glazing, above 2-bay arcading with moulded imposts (archivolts
missing) holding false sashes with glazing bars and moulded sills. Giant
segmental pediment in middle bay of attic storey, flanked by paired square
renewed sashes in architraves. Wings have chamfered quoins, and quoin
strips to basement and attic. Renewed sashes, with glazing bars and moulded
sills in architraves. 2-light mullioned basement windows, blocked or with
renewed louvres. Hipped roof with 2 transverse ridge stacks, behind
straight parapet with string and copings. 7-bay returns have central
renewed 3-panel double doors and blocked overlights in eared architraves
under entablatures with suspended pilasters, up 3 renewed steps. Similar
windows and cornice. Rear shows restored fenestration similar to front, but
with door in plain surround under round-headed window. 2-bay projecting
wings have similar treatment. Inner returns have plain doorways and
mullioned first-floor and attic-floor windows, in angle. Interior: Large
restored central hall with coved ceiling cornice. Ground-floor rooms in
wings have moulded panelled ceilings. East wing has altered dogleg
staircase with turned balusters, square coupled and single, panelled newel
posts and heavily-moulded handrail and string. Foundation stone in basement
of east wing dated 1708. The school still operates as Sir William Turner's
6th Form College, in new premises.

Listing NGR: NZ5937421796

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534053

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)