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SE 25 NE
4/41

KILLINGHALL
RIPON ROAD (east side)
Low Hall with forecourt wall, railing and two gates

(Formerly listed as Low Hall with forecourt wall, railing and 2 gates with gate piers, previously listed as 'Low Hall')

8.3.52

GV
II

House and outbuilding, now restaurant. Low bay to left dated 1701, added main range dated 1750, with mid-late C19 alterations and additions. Coursed squared pink/grey gritstone, graduated stone slate roof, wrought-iron railings. Two-storey, three-bay main block with chamfered plinth and rusticated quoins; lower two-storey entrance bay to left with former outbuilding beyond to left.

Entrance bay: four-panel door in cyma-moulded surround has the inscription "1701" on the shallow triangular-headed lintel, with rope motif in the spandrels. Recessed chamfered mullion windows of four lights to ground floor and three lights to first floor. Corniced stack left. Former outbuilding, now part of restaurant to left has C20 bow window to considerably advanced front elevation and long catslide roof.

Main range: former flat-faced mullion windows in stone architraves of five, three and three lights to each floor; the mullions are renewed to ground floor and have late C19 chamfering to first floor. The string course at first-floor level is broken by the lead fall pipe, the rainwater head of which is dated 1750. Deep moulded eaves cornice, gable copings, corniced stacks at each end and to left of centre. Rear - flat-faced mullion windows blocked or altered in the C18 and C20; C20 extension.

Left return: a two-light flat-faced mullion window in projecting stone surround lights the attic storey. Right return: a C19 porch to right, built against an adjoining wall, has paired Tuscan columns carrying an entablature with cornice and blocking course; C20 glazing. First and attic-storey windows as left return. Forecourt wall, railings and gates: low one-course wall with heavy round coping stones is ramped up to left (adjoining former outbuilding).

Railings: eight standards with flower-bud finials and bars with spearhead finial; narrow gate left, opposite the 1701 entrance, similar in style with dogbars; double gates to right have foliated finials. The piers to the double gates are ashlar and are chamfered in later C19 style as the main range windows.

Interior: C18 fireplace with moulded surround to first floor of entrance bay; shutters to main range; left and centre; an entrance hall rear right (from the porch) contains a C19 staircase.

Listing NGR: SE2864959007

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26468372

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)