Ferriby House

NORTH FERRIBY HIGH STREET SE 92 NE (south side) 6/27 Ferriby House 6.5.52 II* GV House. c1760-1770 for Sir Henry Etherington of Hull. Red brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Main front of 3 storeys, 5 bays: centre bay breaks forward slightly under pediment. Moulded plinth, rusticated quoins. Central panelled and glazed door with fanlight in tripartite Corinthian portal with pilasters flanking side lights with glazing bars: centre breaks forward on Corinthian columns under frieze with central urn and festoons and drops; dentilled cornice, and dentilled segmental pediment. To right and left are sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves and sill bands. First-floor band and sill band. Window over door is a sash with glazing bars in eared architrave with chambranles under a dentilled floating cornice: beneath the window is a sunk balustraded panel. To right and to left are sashes with glazing bars in moulded architraves. Second floor: five 6-pane sashes in moulded architraves with sills. Moulded eaves and raked cornices. Coped parapet. In the pediment is a blank shield enriched with foliage over crossed horns and a riband. Garden front: 3 storeys, 7 bays: bays 4-6 rise as a canted bay through full height of house. Ground floor: 2-pane sashes with sills to canted bay, sashes with glazing bars elsewhere, all windows under slightly cambered gauged brick arches with projecting keyblocks. First- floor band. First floor: 7 similar windows. Second floor: seven 6-pane sashes with sills, all under slightly cambered gauged brick arches with raised keyblocks. Mutule cornice, coped parapet. Hipped roofs. Interior: the interior survives complete and is of exceptional quality. Cut-string stair with patterned tread ends, fluted balusters, and moulded handrail rising through one flight and returning, to a similarly treated balcony, in 2 cantilevered flights. Most of the doors - of 6 beaded panels - survive and are hung in enriched architraves with ornate overdoors in the Adam style. The principal rooms retain elaborate fireplaces in polychrome marble. The chief interest of the house lies in the plasterwork which is plentiful and of excellent quality: the soffit of the stair is elaborately treated as are the ceilings of all the principal rooms, which are also panelled. N M R PHOTO

Listing NGR: SE9877226148