Brantinghamthorpe

A house dating to the late 17th century, significantly extended between 1868 and 1876 by Devey. The construction is of coursed oolitic limestone rubble with freestone dressings and a graduated slate roof. The original core consists of two storeys and three bays, featuring a central, projecting two-storey porch. To the left is a five-bay extension in a Jacobethan style, and to the right, a single-bay extension.

The original block’s porch has a 20th-century glazed and panelled door set within a possibly reused late 14th-century pointed arch with continuous mouldings under a hoodmould with carved stops. Late 19th-century polygonal bay windows with two-light mullion-and-double-transom windows, under moulded cornices and strapwork parapets, flank the porch. An inserted late 19th or early 20th-century oriel window with mullioned and transomed windows sits above a heraldic plaque on the porch. Cross-mullion windows with small raised keyblocks are present to the right and left. A moulded cornice runs along the top of the building, topped by a shaped gable with a two-light casement and a 19th-century side wall stack to the porch, and a balustraded parapet elsewhere. A hipped roof extends to an end stack. A central bell turret rises from the house, featuring a square base with a balustraded parapet and obelisks. The top of the turret is a hexagonal cupola with keyed round-headed openings under a modillion cornice, culminating in a shaped pyramidal dome with a ball finial and an elaborate wrought-iron weather-vane.

The left extension's first bay is a two-storey canted bay with mullioned and transomed windows on both floors (two-light to the front, single-light to the sides), and a shaped gable featuring mythological panels, pyramidal finials, and a small pediment. The second bay exhibits cross-mullioned windows on both floors, along with flanking small single-pane windows on the ground floor. The third bay has a late 19th-century square bay window with five-light mullion-and-transom windows; the centre light of the ground-floor window has a segmental transom and head. The fourth bay features a glazed and panelled door with a mullioned overlight, a blank shield above, and a cross-mullioned window on the first floor. The fifth and ninth bays are similar two-storey canted bays.

The interior was completely remodelled in the late 19th century, with panelled walls and inserted beamed ceilings. A grand staircase in a late 17th-century style was also added. One ground-floor room contains bolection-moulded panelling and an elaborate fireplace dating to approximately 1716, which was brought from 66 High Street, Hull.