Kilnwick Percy Hall

Country house, built around 1845, and possibly incorporating a mid-18th century core. A north wing was demolished around 1960. The house is constructed of ashlar and red and yellow brick, with tiled roofs. The main elevation features a moulded plinth and six bays arranged as 1:3:2. A prominent four-column Ionic portico with a coffered ceiling and a pediment bearing an elaborate achievement of arms dominates the centre. The ground floor has a double-leaf glazed door with pilasters to the reveals, and four-pane sash windows with architraves and sills. A continuous cornice runs over the central three bays within the portico, with sills and cornices elsewhere. Deep moulded eaves cornices and a roof balustrade with intermediate and angle pilasters are also present. Axial stacks are made of red and yellow brick with stone cornices to the left and ashlar to a similar design on the right. Three bays of the demolished north wing remain as a screen wall to the left, with blocked openings. The park front is two storeys high with twelve bays arranged as 3:6:3, featuring polygonal bays to the right and left. A two-leaf garden door with a large two-pane oblong fanlight sits within an architrave to the right of the central six bays, while other ground-floor windows are four-pane sashes in architraves with a plain band connecting the cornices. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars in architraves, with pediments over the centre windows of the polygonal bays. A deep moulded eaves cornice runs along the top of the front. A central piece with heavy acanthus scrolls sits under a low pediment, flanked to the right and left by a roof balustrade terminating in pilasters surmounted by urns. The garden elevation has six bays across two storeys, with four-pane sashes to the ground floor and sashes with glazing bars in architraves to the first floor, with pediments over the centre two bays. A deep moulded eaves cornice is present, along with a two-bay coped centrepiece with blank panelling, flanked by a roof balustrade with intermediate and end pilasters surmounted by urns. Inside, the ballroom (to the right of the main elevation) has ornate panelling and decoration in a French Rococo style, including a series of overdoor paintings signed R.W. Buss 1848. The main staircase, which was taken down and rebuilt elsewhere, features a cut-string stair, gilt cast-iron railings with heavy foliage, and a moulded oak handrail.