Hesslewood

HESSLE FERRIBY ROAD TA 02 NW (south side, off) 9/71 Hesslewood 31.1.67 - II

House, now an hotel. 1789, for Joseph Robinson Pease with later alterations. White brick with stone dressings, slate roofs. Original block of 2 storeys, 5 symmetrical bays, raised by a storey in C19, with 3-bay single-storey wings to 2-storey, single-bay pavilions. 5 steps to central double-leaf glazed door with fanlight with radial glazing in round-headed architrave. Pilastered porch with pediment enriched with festoons and rosettes to frieze: dentilled cornice. Plinth and sill band. To right: two 12-pane sashes, to left, two 2-pane sashes, all under wedge lintels. First- floor band. First-floor sill band to five 2-pane sashes under wedge lintels. Modillion cornice with blocking course. 5 attic storey windows: three 6-pane sashes to right two C20 replacement windows to left. Elaborate stacks with cornices to roof-well. Flanking wings: each originally had 3 round-headed recesses with stone imposts. In each of the 2 outer bays of the right wing is a sash with glazing bars and sill in a pedimented architrave. The first bay has been obscured by a late C19 square bay to the main range. Right pavilion: a Venetian window to the ground floor and over that a Diocletian window flanked by sashes with glazing bars and sills under wedge lintels. Dentilled cornices to pediment, end stack. Extension to right not of special interest. Left wing: central sash with glazing bars in pedimented architrave flanked by round-headed niches with sills. Left pavilion: a French window to the altered Venetian window; 3 sashes with sills and glazing bars to first floor. Dentilled cornices to pediment, reduced end stack. Interior: fine late Cl8 cut-string stair with model tread-ends, turned, fluted, balusters, and slender wreathed handrail. 6-panel doors in architraves with enriched pulvinated friezes and cornices. Giant round arch with Greek key frieze on Tower of the Winds pilasters to stair-hall.

Listing NGR: TA0172525871