Description

SE 45 SW KIRK DEIGHTON YORK ROAD
(north side, off)

3/19 Ingmanthorpe Hall

30.3.66

- II

Country house, now a school. Early C19 with mid-late C19 additions and C20
alterations. Ashlar, grey slate roof. 2 storeys plus attic storey, 5 x 5
bay main block; the central 3 bays project slightly and the central bay is
bowed to full height. To left, a single-storey 5 x 4-bay ballroom,
billiard room and smoking room range, added in 1880. Main block: central
glazed door under an added porte cochere with 3 round keyed arches. Plate-
glass sash windows throughout; those to bays 2 and 4 are in round-headed
recesses with large voussoirs and impost bands; the outer windows have
rectangular recesses above. At first-floor and attic levels the bowed
central bay has a tripartite window, the lower window altered to a door; the
windows of the 3 central bays are in architraves. Projecting sill bands to
all floors. A deep moulded cornice separates the first and the attic
storeys. Deep cornice and blocking course. Tall corniced stacks flank
central bay; further large stacks towards the rear, left and right.
Ballroom has pilastered facade with cornice and parapets, 5 French doors to
front facade. Hipped roof. Interior. The large entrance hall has a hooded
fireplace to left in C19 medieval style; ceiling cornice with heraldic
emblems. The inner hall has a massive cantilevered stone staircase of 4
straight flights rising to the top storey and a wrought-iron balustrade with
scroll decoration and ramped handrail. The stairwell ceilings have moulded
plasterwork. A plain service stair remains behind the main staircase.

Listing NGR: SE4233250081

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443169

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)