East Ravendale Hall

TF 29 NW EAST RAVENDALE East Ravendale Hall 9/20 4.1.67

GV II House. Early C18, probably for 9th Baronet Thorold, with extensive late C19 and early C20 alterations and additions'for the Parkinson family. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof to C18 sections, Welsh slates to remainder. Early section T-shaped on plan: 2-room west front (probably originally with central entrance hall), with 2-room rear wing; later additions to north, including entrance to east. West front: 2 storeys with attic, 5 bays; symmetrical. C19 central full height brick canted bay with plate glass sashes in wooden architraves flanked by similar windows in lengthened original openings with rubbed brick flat arches. Flight of 3 stone steps to window to left. 3-course brick first floor band. Similar first floor windows. Deeply-coved eaves cornice. Three C19 dormers with casements beneath segmental pediments. Brick-coped gables. Tall C19 corniced end stacks. Right gable-end has pairs of C19 sashes to ground, first floor and attic. Rear wing, south front, has projecting ground floor bay window to left with bowed sides and C20 French windows beneath moulded cornice; windows, brick band, eaves cornice, end and axial stacks similar to west front. Interior. Original C18 features: ground floor left room has bolection panelling, moulded dado rail, moulded wooden ceiling cornice, marble bolection chimneypiece with panelled overmantel and corniced mantleshelf flanked by round-arched cupboards with panelled pilasters supporting keyed archivolts; ground floor right (incorporating former central room) has fielded panelling, moulded dado rail and ceiling cornice; room to rear right has fielded panelling, moulded dado rail, dentilled cornice, moulded stone chimneypiece with fluted key, panelled overmantel and corniced mantleshelf; 2 first floor west bedrooms have fielded panelling, moulded dado rails and cornices; fielded-panel doors in architraves. Otherwise the interior features date from the late C19 - early C20 alterations and are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TF2367499466