Winestead Hall Hospital Office And Service Block

A stable block, now serving as a hospital office and service wing, was built in 1762 and is attributed to John Carr of York for Sir Robert Hildyard. Later alterations and additions occurred in the 1930s and subsequent years. The building is constructed of red brick in English bond, with a Westmorland slate roof and a wooden clock turret topped with a lead roof. Designed in a classical style, it’s U-shaped with a formerly central entrance blocked, leading to a rear courtyard.

The south front has seven bays, with the second and sixth bays projecting forward with pediments. A blind arcade of full-height round arches runs along the front, featuring an ashlar impost band and rubbed-brick arches. A former central entrance arch has been blocked, with a rendered brick insertion. Modern doors are set within rendered surrounds in the first and seventh bays. The remaining bays contain 18-pane sashes with sills and flat, rubbed-brick arches. The first floor has short 8-pane sashes to bays 4-7, and tripartite sashes to bays 1-3, set within widened openings and similar surrounds to the ground floor. All windows are modern replacements. A moulded wooden cornice runs along the top, surmounted by pediments. The roof is hipped. The central clock tower consists of two stages: a square first stage with recessed half-columns at the angles, carrying moulded segmental pediments, and a domed roof. Above sits a circular belfry with a colonnade, a plain frieze, a belled roof, a ball finial and a wrought-iron weather-vane with a gilded weathercock.

The left and right returns, each with three bays, feature similar blind arcading. The right return incorporates a central door, an 18-pane sash, and a partly-blocked window. The left return has similar ground-floor and first-floor sashes, with inserted sashes to the central bay. The rear elevation has a datestone above the blocked central entrance reading "RH". A door with a keyed flat arch sits to the right (west) wing.

Originally serving as a stable block and grooms’ quarters for the now-demolished Red Hall country house (demolished 1936-7), the site of which remains visible to the south, the design of the block and clock tower reflects the work of Carr at Heath Hall and Ormesby Hall in North Yorkshire.