Yokefleet Hall

Yokefleet Hall is a house dating to 1868-74, likely designed by F S Brodrick of Hull. It is constructed of red brick with ashlar and polychrome brick detailing, and has a Welsh slate roof. The building is of Victorian High Gothic style, comprising a three-bay main house, a three-bay servants' wing, and a yard to the west.

The garden facade features two storeys, with four first-floor windows and attics to the main house on the right, and three first-floor windows to the servants' wing on the left. The main house's extreme right bay has a canted bay window rising through two storeys. All window lights are transomed, with multiple lights separated by orange sandstone shafts with capitals supporting ashlar arches. The central full-length window below a polychrome brick tympanum has a 1:5:1 arrangement of lights, with a square bay window. To the right is a five-light canted bay window arranged 1:3:1. Ground-floor windows feature stiled 4-centred arched lights. The first floor includes a single lancet with a trefoil arch to the extreme left, and the first two gabled bays each have a three-light window with pointed lights, foliate motifs in the spandrels, and polychrome brick tympana above. The third bay repeats the ground-floor canted bay and has an openwork parapet. Attic windows are trefoiled lancets to the first two gables and three roundels within a single arch to the third. Stone coped gables have finials, and the parapet is ornamented with blind trefoils. Ridge stacks are present.

The servants' wing has paired plate-glass sashes beneath stone arches with cambered brick arches above and polychrome brick to the tympana of the first two bays, and single-light plate-glass sashes to the third. The roof is hipped to the left, with a stack rising through the front pitch and a ridge stack. An approximately 4-metre-high wall to the yard, coped with a pointed boarded door to the right, is also present.

The interior includes an entrance hall, which serves as a billiards room, featuring an open-string staircase with a cast-iron balustrade. Doorcases throughout the ground floor have arched designs with shafts carrying waterleaf capitals. Moulded cornices are present throughout. Original, built-in glass-fronted cupboards are found in the hall and a small sitting-room. Yokefleet Hall is the birthplace of William Empson, a poet and critic.