Portington Hall

SE 73 SE EASTRINGTON PORTINGTON

6/13 Portington Hall 31.5.54 - II

House. Recorded in 1672 hearth tax returns as "the New House" with extensions of c1760 and C19. Built for Portington family. Brick with stone dressings and pantile roof. E-shaped on plan with C18 extension to main range to north and porch extension of C19 to rear. 2 storeys and attics, 5 bays to early house with outer and central bays breaking forward, single-bay extension to left. Quoins to angles and window quoins to early house. Plinth. Central board door with 2-light casement to left and 3-light casement to right. Inserted 3-light casements to outer wings. All ground- floor casements C19 and transomed. Extension: 20-pane sash. First floor: 3-light fixed window to centre. All other windows are 16-pane sashes. Hipped roofs with 2-light Yorkshire sash gabled dormers to outer wings. External stack to right, and ridge stacks. Interior: mid C18 panelling to drawing room and coffered ceiling. 6-fielded-panel doors to many ground- floor rooms. Roof: principal rafters set in simple A truss with tenoned purlins and no ridge pole. John Wesley stayed here in 1790 when the house was in the possession of the Wilberforce-Bell family. Allison K J, The East Riding of Yorkshire Landscape, 1976. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and the East Riding, 1972.

Listing NGR: SE7888031006