Description

ORMESBY CHURCH LANE NZ 51 NW west side (off) 6/24 Ormesby Hall, adjoining 5.5.52 outbuildings and screen walls. G.V. I

Manor house, c.1600 within a partly moated site, drained in C18. Largely rebuilt mid/late C18 to form service wing of Ormesby Hall : 1730/45, with internal alterations c.1770, possibly by John Carr; mid C19 porch, rear bay window c.1871 and porch/link dated 1879. Vertically-tooled sandstone ashlar with chamfered plinth. Service wing dressed sandstone with brick in English garden wall bond to south ranges; coursed random rubble north-east range and rear wall of north-west range. Lakeland slate and lead roofs; Welsh slate roofs on service wing. Screen wall and gateway, brick with sandstone dressings. Hall Palladian style. 3 storeys and basement; 5 bay entrance front with 3-bay slightly-projecting pedimented centre. Central prostyle porch has glazed double doors. Renewed sashes with glazing bars and keystones; centre bay has architraves. Painted modillioned eaves cornice. Sculptured Pennyman arms in tympanum. Hipped roof, sprocketed at eaves, with corniced ridge stacks. Left return shows 3 basement windows and 2 round-headed stair windows; 2-storey porch/link at left end, with 2 x 2 bay rusticated elliptical arcade, sash windows in architraves and hipped roof. 4-bay right return. Garden front similar to entrance front, with central square bay window. Short screen wall with gateway adjoins right of entrance front: fluted gatepiers, with ball finials, holding partly-renewed round-headed doorway with keystone, pediment and boarded double doors; wall ramped at end. Service wing: on 4 sides of courtyard, adjoining porch/link: 2 storeys and basement; 8-window entrance front (north-west). 3rd bay has 6-panel round-headed door in early C17 quasi-Corinthian doorcase, under Pennyman achievement of arms. Basement window at right of doorway. Sash windows with glazing bars, some renewed, and keyed lintels. Continuous dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped roofs with corniced ridge stacks. Lean-to outhouses and pigsties adjoin high screen wall enclosing yard on north-east side of service wing. Hall interior: rich decorations; ceilings in dining room and drawing room of second period and more delicate. Some rooms on first floor have both periods. Cantilevered dogleg staircase has 3 turned balusters, with square knops, per tread, ramped wreathed moulded handrail and curtail bottom stair. 3-bay screen with acanthus capitals, to grand landing on first floor. Similar service staircase has carved drops on panelled newels. Now owned by National Trust.

Listing NGR: NZ5297416746

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