Description

SE 19 SW LEYBURN COMMERCIAL SQUARE (west side)

12/24 Leyburn Hall 13/2/67

GV II*

Hall, c1750. For John Yarker. Roughcast with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, E-plan. South elevation: 1:1:5:1:1. Central range: plinth, rusticated quoins. Ground floor: 4-pane sashes in moulded surrounds, the central one eared and enriched with a cornice supported on consoles. String. First floor: sashes with glazing bars in moulded surrounds. Cavetto cornice, blind parapet. Bays 2 and 8 recessed with quoined surrounds to openings, casement window to left, glazed door to right, sash windows with glazing bars above. End pavilions with rusticated quoins and full height round-arched openings with moulded ashlar surrounds to tripartite windows with Doric half-columns below Diocletian windows. Pediments with wrought-iron weather-vanes above. North elevation: 1:1:3:1:1. Central range with central Doric portico to 6-panel door below plain fanlight in moulded surround with moulded imposts and keystone. Sash windows in moulded surrounds, hipped roof. Bays 2 and 4 recessed with Gibbs-style double-decker Venetian window, that to left partially blocked on ground floor. End pavilion wings project, each with 2 tall blind round- arched openings and hipped roof. Interior: arcaded hall. Drawing Room and Morning Room with fine door-cases and cornices, Morning Room has in addition panelling and fine chimney-piece. Staircase hall with ionic columns and imperial staircase with decorative plasterwork ceiling, perhaps by Cortese. West pavilion has very plain, full-height Music Room which could have been a private chapel, as Yarker family had recusant sympathies. Marcus Binney, "Leyburn Hall, North Yorkshire", Country Life October 20 1977, pp. 1090-3.

Listing NGR: SE1103590484

External Links

• Leyburn Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17536756

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)