Brandesburton Hall Hospital

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TA 14 NW BRANDESBURTON MILL LANE

552-/5/10000 BrandesburtonHall Hospital

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Former country house, now hospital. 1772, 1874, c1900 with late C20 alterations and additions. Red brick with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Many tall brick stacks. Cill bands, first floor band and moulded eaves plus brick parapet ashlar balusters. Quadrangle plan. 2 storey. South, garden front, 7 windows, with a central, single storey ashlar frontispiéce, with 3 sets of glazed doors separated by rusticated pilasters, the central doorway flanked by Doric columns. Above 3 plain sashes. Eitherside, 2 storey canted bay windows each with 3 plain sashes. Beyond to the right a single plain sash to each floor, to the left a single storey projection with glazed doors topped by a brick parapet with ashlar balusters, and above a single glazing bar sash. To the left a single storey C19 addition. East entrance front, has off-centre 3 window projection, with a central projecting 3 storey entrance, with an ashlar porch. The projecting Edwardian porch has rusticated pilasters with 2 Doric columns in antis and an ashlar parapet with balusters, within a central doorway and flanking pilasters. Above a tripartite sash and ashlar dividing pilasters, above a brick pediment and a blank lower storey topped by a brick balustrade with corner urns. Eitherside are single plain sashes to each floor. To the left a 2 storey Edwardian addition with a truncated external stack. To the right a 2 window wing, with a single storey Victorian addition with 3 plain sashes and above 2 plain sashes. The irregular north and west fronts are partly obscured by later additions. Interior. Largely remodelled c1900, with a 3 flight main staircase with square newels, moulded hand rail, and bulbous turned balusters, plus an ornate stone fireplace with marble columns. Lounge has ornate C18 wooden fire surround. Board room has good quality C18 wooden fire surround with Edwardian overmantle and flanking shell alcoves. Dining room has a pair of bolection mould fireplaces with wooden surrounds and plaster over mantles, 4 fluted Doric columns, 2 sets of Doric columns in antis and a glazed circular dome. Throughout good quality wreathed plaster ceilings and fine panel doors with wooden moulded surrounds.

Listing NGR: TA1115847684