Worlaby House

WORLABY MIDDLE BARN HILL TA 01 SW (east side) 5/47 Worlaby House - II House. Early - mid C19 with later C19 additions. Yellow brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings and porch. Concrete tile roof. L- shaped on plan: 2-room central entrance-hall south front with 3-room wing to rear right and single-room extension to left. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical, with single-storey extension to left. Rendered plinth. Flight of 6 stone steps to projecting porch with Ionic columns supporting plain entablature and flat hood with ornate wrought-iron balcony; Ionic pilasters flanking recessed panelled door beneath overlight with margin lights. Unequal 15-pane recessed sashes in architraves with recessed ashlar panels below and cambered wedge lintels incised in imitation of rubbed brick. Similar window to left extension with coped embattled parapet above. First floor: 12-pane sashes with sills and similar lintels; central French window to balcony with margin lights. Wooden eaves cornice. Hipped roof. End stacks. Right return, forming garden front of 5 bays, has recessed 3-bay central section with later ground-floor canted brick bay, 12-pane sashes with sills and incised ashlar lintels similar to front. Interior. Entrance hall has ribbed cornice with paterae and round-arched opening to stairhall; open well staircase with wreathed handrail, fluted balusters and clustered newel; main rooms have moulded friezes and cornices; panelled window shutters and doors in architraves throughout.

Listing NGR: TA0126814225