Description

SE 48 NW KNAYTON WITH BRAWITH BRAWITH HALL
1/9
1.5.52 Brawith Hall
GV
II*

Large house. First quarter C18 with later alterations and additions including rear
range of later C19 on site of medieval manor. Red and pale brown brick in Flemish
bond with sandstone ashlar dressings. Hipped, graduated Westmorland slate roof with
brick stacks, concealed by parapet. Two storeys with high parapet. South front: red
brick. Five bays with giant pilasters 1-3-1 on ashlar plinth. Three steps to central
entrance. Part-glazed door in eaved architrave with consoles supporting a pediment
with pulvinated frieze. Tall, narrow sashes with glazing bars in ashlar architraves
with coved lintels and chamfered cills. Chamfered 1st floor band. Window to entrance
bay in channelled surround. Cyma moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze to 1st floor
and further cornice to parapet. East and west facades: pale brown brick with red
brick parapet and ashlar dressing. Four bays. Sashes with glazing bars under gauged
red brick flat arches. Two bays of east facade rebuilt in C20. Interior: staircase
hall:cantilevered cut-string staircase with 3 different balusters of bulb and gadroon
type per tread, ramped moulded handrail with Greek key motif, spiral curtail and
turned newel with volute to foot. Panelled dado follows line of stair. Dentilled
cornice to ground floor. Dome to 1st floor flanked by oblong panels, modillion
cornice. Early C18 decorative schemes to south-east and south-west rooms. The latter
has eared panelling above a dado and a dentil and modillion cornice. Sashes in
projecting wave-moulded cases with cornices and shutters. Two 6-panel doors flanking
chimney piece and a further one leading to the north-west room with panelled soffits
in architraves with Greek key motif surmounted by dentil and modillion pediments with
pulvinated bay-leaf friezes. Marble fireplace with overmantel flanked by Corinthian
pilasters. The north-west room has slightly later decoration including good foliate
carving.

Brawith Hall belonged to the Danby family in the first half of the C17. After the
Civil War, in 1656, it passed into the hands of Edmund Barstow of Northallerton, a
member of the same family. Bought in 1702 by Mrs Peacock, also of the same family, it
has descended down the family to its present owners.

Listing NGR: SE4104387287

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535749

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990