Description

NZ 10 NW DALTON HIGH LANE (west side)

5/21 Dalton Hall 4.2.69

GV II*

Fortified manor house. C15 with late C16 or early C17 alterations, early and mid C19 alterations and extension, C20 restoration. Rubble with ashlar dressings, artificial stone slate roofs. T-shaped plan, 2 and 3 storeys, 2:1:1 first-floor windows. Continuous ashlar plinth. Quoins to 3-storey, 3-bay tower, to left of 2-bay early C19 extension, and to right of mid C19 service addition. Left 2 bays: to right, 6-panel door below fanlight with radial glazing bars in ashlar doorcase with open pediment on cavetto brackets with paterae; to left, 3-light sash window; first-floor, sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds; ashlar coping and end stack to left. Central tower: ground-floor canted bay window on bowed ashlar base; first-and second-floor windows as first-floor windows to left; hipped roof; end stacks, that to right external. Right-hand range: board door in ashlar surround to right, and on each floor a casement window in ashlar surround; ashlar coping and end stack to right. Rear of tower: quoins; ground-floor French window in made-up double-chamfered surround; on first and second floors a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould, and similar blocked window without hoodmould in gable which has moulded coping. Left return of tower: blocked ashlar surround of original doorway. Right return of tower: external stack supported on 3 huge first-floor corbels, hidden inside lean-to scullery. The tower had 2 heated rooms on the first floor, then had a fourth storey added and a large fireplace formed on the ground floor. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 415.

Listing NGR: NZ1106409020

External Links

• Dalton Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17536828

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