Haworth Hall And Attached Outbuildings Garden Wall And Summerhouse

Haworth Hall and Attached Outbuildings, Garden Wall and Summerhouse

A country house with attached outbuildings, garden wall and summerhouse, built around 1755 for the Burton family. The main structure underwent alterations to the entrance hall and main staircase around 1770, with further alterations dating to around 1790 and 1820.

The building is constructed of brick, mainly rendered, with an ashlar front and dressings. The roofing comprises hipped and gabled slate and pantile, with 2 coped ashlar ridge stacks and 2 rendered rear wall stacks. The hall rises 3 storeys in a 5-window range.

The main west front displays a rusticated ground floor with a string course and dentillated eaves cornice. Five 15-pane sashes with moulded surrounds, cornices and balustrades occupy the first floor. Above sit five 6-pane sashes with moulded surrounds, the central one eared. A central ashlar portal, flanked on either side by two 15-pane sashes with keystones, features 2 Ionic columns, an entablature and segmental pediment, with a half-glazed door of around 1790 containing shaped lights and an overlight.

The south side incorporates a central 3-storey canted bay window containing three 12-pane sashes at ground level and three 9-pane sashes above, with 3 round-headed plain sashes below. To the right are three 18-pane sashes with three smaller 9-pane sashes above, below which sits a half-glazed door flanked to the right by two 18-pane sashes. To the left are 2 tall 12-pane sashes with two 6-pane sashes above, and below, a single 15-pane sash flanked by single blocked windows.

The north side contains a bay window with identical fenestration to that on the south side, and a blank range to its right. To the left is a recessed bay with a Venetian window and a Diocletian window above. Below this is a flat-roofed addition with a round-arched 2-light casement and a similar flat-headed window beneath. Further to the left stands a wing containing a 12-pane sash to the right and two 9-pane sashes above.

The outbuildings include a workshop constructed of painted brick with a pantile roof and external gable stack, 2 storeys in a 2-window range, with 6-pane sashes. Below these is a 3-light Yorkshire sash flanked to the left by a 6-pane sash and to the right by a 6-pane window. Adjacent is a former cottage, now an outbuilding, rendered brick with a pantile roof, gable stack and through-eaves dormer containing a 6-pane sash. The left gable features tumbled coping with two 6-pane sashes.

The rear comprises a rendered flat-roofed addition of 2 storeys with two 12-pane sashes on each floor. To its right is a single-storey building at right angles, constructed of brick with a hipped concrete tile roof and single ridge stack, featuring 3 round-arched wooden cross casements to the south. A short link building adjoins a single-storey dairy of brick with a canted pantile roof and canted corners.

Interior

The entrance hall and stairwell, dating to around 1765, are furnished with enriched modillion cornices and friezes, and fielded panelled wainscotting. The stairwell features a panelled ceiling with a central wreath. A cantilever oak stair with turned corner post and square newel incorporates turned balusters and a moulded handrail. A wooden chimneypiece of around 1900 displays a round head containing a coat of arms and twist columns.

The library, remodelled in Gothick style around 1820, features a heavily enriched modillion cornice and a hexagonal panelled ceiling with a central star. Bookcases, doorcases and window surrounds are detailed in Gothick style. A classical inlaid marble fireplace incorporates a Gothick cast-iron grate with a traceried surround.

The drawing room to the south displays a heavily enriched frieze with figure panels separated by paired modillions and a palmette band. A coved ceiling incorporates Rococo ornament with a central panel framed by a guilloche surround. The bow window has window surrounds in the form of palm fronds rising from fluted columns, with enriched panels to the shutters. Four enriched doorcases with cornices and crests are present. An inlaid marble fireplace features long fluted brackets to the cornice and a shell-back register grate.

The dining room to the north follows a similar design, with an oval dome and fan in the bay window and a Greek Key border to the central ceiling panel. Three round-arched windows display moulded wood surrounds, panelled shutters and window seats. Four fielded 6-panel doors feature elaborate carved doorcases with cornices. A marble fireplace with an eared architrave and entablature is present. The ground floor central corridor contains a door surround with a fanlight.

The rear ground floor office retains resited full-height framed panelling and fragments of balustrade, along with a late 19th-century ashlar fireplace incorporating long scroll brackets. The dairy at the east end features yellow glazed brick walls with a band of leaves in the same material, with brick and stone shelves on all sides.

On the first floor, 2 front bedrooms are furnished with full-height panelling, elaborate cornices and simple marble fireplaces, along with fielded 6-panel doors. The right bedroom has been divided to form a dressing room. The bedroom above the drawing room contains full-height panelling, a frieze and modillion cornice, with a carved marble fireplace featuring a cornice and overmantel with an eared and shouldered architrave, flanked by single 6-panel doors. The bedroom above the dining room displays a dentillated cornice and a marble fireplace with an eared architrave and scrolled frieze. A 18th-century cantilever dogleg rear stair incorporates vase and stem balusters with a ramped handrail, and various fielded 6-panel doors are distributed throughout.

The interior decoration, in the style of William Chambers, may be the work of Thomas Atkinson or by an unknown architect following designs from Chambers' "Civil Architecture".

The Garden Wall and Summerhouse

To the north stands a summerhouse of brick with a concrete tile roof, set within a brick garden wall approximately 2 metres high and 35 metres long, containing a segment-headed gate. The summerhouse features concave-sided stone coped gables with flat tops and, to the west, a central board door flanked by single windows, all with segmental heads. An adjoining wall to the west, approximately 45 metres long, has slab coping. Opposite the house, a lower section is topped with wrought-iron railings and defined by square panelled ashlar piers. To the north, a further section approximately 50 metres long incorporates an intermediate wooden gate.