Braffords Hall

SKIDBY RIPLINGHAM ROAD SE 93 SE (south side) 6/96 Braffords Hall 7.2.53 GV II

House. After 1812, for Mr Robert Osborne, Recorder of Hull. White brick, stone dressings, slate roofs. Main range of 2 storeys, 3 bays, with projecting end wings of 2 storeys, one bay each. Central glazed and panelled door under fanlight with radial glazing in rusticated surround with carved face of Neptune to keyblock flanked to right and to left by blank panels. Semicircular porch with Tuscan columns with frieze and cornice. To right and left are paired 12-pane sashes with sills under slightly cambered lintels. First-floor sill band. Central sash with glazing bars in architrave with fluted pulvinated frieze and projecting cornice flanked to right and to left by sashes with glazing bars with wedge lintels. Eaves cornice and blocking course. Wings to right and left are similar: ground floor: tripartite sashes with glazing bars in round-headed recess with fanned tympanum. First-floor sill band to sashes with glazing bars, each under a cambered wedge lintel. Corner pilasters, parapets with central balustered panel, hipped roof, interior side wall stacks. Interior: cut- string stair with wood and metal stick balusters and slender ramped handrail. Most of the 6-beaded-panel doors survive as do a number of contemporary pine fireplaces and plaster cornices and centrepieces.

Listing NGR: SE9856430782