Description

KILDALE MAIN STREET NZ 60 NW North side (off) 6/134 Kildale Hall 5/5/52 II

Large house. Reputedly c.1780, in style early-mid C19, added to c.1860 by Salvin and raised and extended c.1900. Coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with ashlar coped gablets. Entrance elevation: 2 storeys with c.1990 attic; 3:1 bays. Bay 1 has French window with tripartite sash over. Bay 2 breaks forward and has canted bay window with sashes supporting iron- balustraded balcony to 1st floor French window; paired attic sashes below pedimented gable with coat of arms. Bay 3 has Doric distyle in antis portico, with door and window infilling and cornice and blocking course; tripartite lst-floor sash below corbelled eaves; attic dormer below pedimented gable dated 1901. Bay 4, set back, has one window on each floor and corbelled lateral stack rising from eaves. Eaves cornice over all. Hipped roof with corniced stacks. Left return: main range, on right, is of 5 bays, the end bays projecting under pediments initialled "RBL" (Robert Bell Livsey, owner of the Kildale estate in the early C19 (Ridley p.13) and "MTE" (probably M? and Edmund Turton, the successors to the estate in the later C19). 2-pane sashes to ground floor, 4-pane sashes above. Lower wing set back on left has door and various windows. Further left another wing breaks forward with pedimented attic storey; and beyond this is a service and outbuilding range. Interior: fluted Doric columns and egg-and-dart cornice to Dining Room; moulded cornice with flowers to soffit in Drawing Rood; panelled doors; stair c.1900.

N. Pevsner, Buildings of England : Yorkshire, The North Riding (1981), p207.

I.E. Ridley, The changing face of Kildale, (1986).

Listing NGR: NZ6101709493

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