South Ferriby Hall

HUMBERSIDE GLANFORD 5264

SE 92 SE SOUTH FERRIBY FARRISHES LANE (north side)

2/66 South Ferriby Hall 6.11.67 (formerly listed as The Hall) - II

Small country house. 1805 for Sir John Nelthorpe with later C19 additions to rear. Red brick: original section in Flemish bond with front and right return in narrower facing bricks. Concrete tile roof to central front section, slate roof to wings and rear. Plan: double-depth central section has single room to front with two central canted bays and entrance/stairhall to right, flanking single-room projecting wings with canted fronts and later additions to rear. Main rooms to front and right; service and servants' rooms to left and rear. 2 storeys, 6 bays; symmetrical, with 4-bay central section flanked by single-bay wings. Entrances to end bays of central section have flights of 4 stone steps to half-glazed panelled doors (that to left a dummy) beneath plain overlights and channelled and keyed stucco flat arches. Pair of central full-height bay windows with three 12-pane sashes to each floor in Doric surrounds with columns supporting recessed entablatures. First floor 12-pane sashes to either side with channelled and keyed stucco flat arches and projecting cills. Fronts of wings have 3 similar windows to each floor, apart from blind window panels to right side of left wing. Three downpipes to central section with fluted rainwater heads bearing date. Plain eaves board. Double-span hipped roof to central section; hipped roofs to bays, wings and additions. Pair of axial stacks to front central section, large axial stack to rear; lateral stacks to wings, axial stacks to later section. Right return: 2 storeys with 2-storey and attic section to right, 5 bays. Original wing to left has 3 stone steps to French window and single 12-pane sashes to each floor similar to front; later section set back to right has 3 flush 12-pane ground floor sashes under segmental arches, similar sash and tripartite sash to first floor, 2 unequal sashes to attic and stepped and cogged brick eaves cornice. Interior. Stairhall has open well staircase with ramped and wreathed handrail, column newels and balusters, ornate dentilled cornice to lower hall, and modillioned cornice and pair of round-headed doors with radial fanlights in architraves to upper hall. Ground floor central room has moulded dado rail, ornate moulded cornice and marble chimneypiece with reeded surround and frieze with carved panels. Ground floor right wing has ornate moulded cornice and marble chimneypiece with triple half-columns and pulvinated frieze with carved central and side panels. The three main first floor rooms have moulded and dentilled cornices and good chimneypieces with composition ornament, that to centre left particularly ornate. Beaded-panel window-shutters and doors in architraves throughout. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 369.

Listing NGR: SE9884321359