Nunthorpe Hall

Nunthorpe Hall is a manor house dating back to approximately 1623, with substantial rebuilding and extensions occurring around 1800 and further alterations in the mid-19th century. Later, in the mid-to-late 19th century, service extensions were added to the north-east. A porch and a projecting bay were added to the garden front in 1901. The building was converted into a home for the elderly in 1951.

The main entrance front, facing west, is two storeys and seven bays. The fourth, fifth, and sixth bays are slightly recessed, with a chamfered plinth and a central, projecting one-storey porch. The entrance doorway features four-panel doors with an overlight, set within a double-keyed architrave and an Ionic doorcase, which itself has chamfered, banded-rusticated pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, and a segmental pediment. A worn escutcheon displays the dates 1630 and 1901 within a concave tympanum. The windows are eight-pane sash windows with glazing bars, set within hollow-chamfered flat surrounds, with three bays to the left and one at the right end featuring six-pane windows on the first floor. The building has an eaves cornice and a blocking course, topped by a shallow-pitched hipped roof and a corniced transverse ridge stack.

The south-facing garden front has a slightly projecting centre bay, with a similar doorway leading up two steps. The tympanum above the doorway bears the quartered arms of the Pease and Gurney families. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, in hollow-chamfered flat surrounds, with a six-pane window in a prominent eared architrave. The roofline is defined by two corniced ridge stacks. The eastern return has two similar ground-floor and one first-floor windows, while the right-hand four bays are recessed and feature similar window arrangements.

The north-east service extensions are in a matching style, with steeply pitched hipped roofs incorporating flat top sections and corniced stacks.

The interior is largely mid- and late-Victorian. A large stair hall contains an open-well staircase with a closed, corniced string, turned balusters, a moulded handrail, panelled newels, and a dado rail, all enriched with classical mouldings, and a gallery on two sides. A panelled south entrance hall is present, as is a drawing room featuring an Ionic screen. The dining room has painted fielded wood panelling with fluted Ionic pilasters, defining three bays by three bays. The oak-panelled library, dating from around 1900, includes a deep-coved ceiling and bookcases built into recesses between the windows. An office features painted wood panelling. The ground floor showcases enriched ceiling cornices, good, enriched Classical chimney pieces, panelled doors and reveals in bolection-moulded architraves (some retaining brass furniture), and panelled window shutters. The first floor displays similar doors and surrounds, with bedrooms on the west side and at the corners of the house featuring enriched ceiling cornices, good Classical fireplaces, and some panelled walls. The north end of the service wing was disused and dilapidated at the time of the last inspection.