Description

SE 46 SE YOULTON YOULTON STREET

1/40 Youlton Hall

20.6.63

GV II

House, remains of much larger building. C16, late Cl7 and early C18, rebuilding of
1963. Timber frame of c1500 encased in brick late Cl7 and early C18; pantile
roof. 2 storeys. L-shaped plan: hall on left, gable-end on, with wing at
right-angles on right. Hall: truncated 1963, front gable now C20 work with
2 20-pane sash bow windows to ground floor and an 8-pane bow window above.
Stepped brick kneelers, shaped gable with brick coping. 2 lateral stacks on
left, the front one large and added late C16. Right return has a 16-pane sash
in flush wood architrave to ground floor and a tripartite sash above. Wing:
2 lst-floor windows. Central 4-panel door in wooden doorcase with frieze and
cornice. 12-pane sashes to ground floor, those to left of door with glazing
bars and flush wood architrave, two to right under cambered brick arches. 2
side-sliding sashes above. Stepped and dentilled eaves. Stepped brick kneelers.
Central diamond-set ridge stack and another to right end. Rear of hall: remains
of 2 brick dripmoulds over renewed lst-floor windows. Oeils-de-boeuf with brick
hoodmould above. Shaped dutch gable. Interior: hall has large fireplace with
inglenook and bressummer, and reputedly a hiding-place inserted in the late
C16 (see former list description); large-scanning spine-beams and joists. Wing
also has large fireplace with inglenook and bressummer and large-scantling beams.
The house is on a moated site where the younger branch of the Roos family of
Helmsley had a seat. This passed by marriage to the Ellerker family who resided
here from 1345 to the end of Cl7 (VCH, p89). VCH North Riding, Vol 2, p89.

Listing NGR: SE4910663424

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26601473

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Recommended Books

• 
  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)