Description

HOWDEN FLATGATE SE 7528 (north side)

13/100 No 2 and 4 (Howden Hall) (formerly listed as 17.3.52 The Hall)

GV II* House. Late C17 with C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Rendered brick; Welsh slate, stone slate, pantile and Westmorland slate roofs. Long southern range with short wing to rear housing staircase, with C18 and C19 extensions to north-east. South facade: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. Rusticated quoins. Approximately central 6-fielded-panel door beneath divided overlight in pedimented Doric porch. Original transomed 2-light casement to left and 2 sashes with glazing bars to extreme left. Sash with glazing bars to right. First-floor band. First floor: sashes with glazing bars, that above door in eared surround, all others to its left. Overhanging modillion eaves course. Hipped roof. 2 ridge stacks. East facade: 2 storeys, 7 first-floor windows. Two C17 bays to left, early C19 canted bay to centre; and 2-baby C19 section to right. Additional single- storey bay to extreme right. Left range: 24-pane sashes beneath wedge lintels. Canted bay: 3 full-length round-headed windows with intersecting glazing bars to heads in Palladian surround. Right range: inserted glazed door to left, 2 sashes with glazing bars and pedimented porch to right. Sash with glazing bars to extreme right. First floor: sashes with glazing bars throughout. Sill band to canted bay. Overhanging modillion eaves course. Roof hipped to left with gable coping and shaped kneelers to right gables of both sections. Pyramidal roof to canted bay. Interior: hall has closed-string staircase with column-on-pedestal balusters. 3-panel doors. Massive ceiling beams. Good C18 hob grate. Substantial moulded cornice to landing ceiling. Dining room and bedroom above both have bolection moulded panelling. Massive ceiling beams to dining room. Chimney-breast to dining room has 2 panels flanked by broken pilaster strips. That to bedroom has original pulvinated fire surround and continuous pilasters. Sitting room: plain panelling to dado. Eared fireplace with pulvinated frieze carrying foliage pattern and central plaque. Dentilled cornice. 6-fielded-panel doors. Massive ceiling beams.

Listing NGR: SE7509828532

External Links

• Wikidata Q17554788

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