Fockerby Hall

Fockerby Hall is a house dating from the early to mid-19th century, with a rear wing that likely originates from the 18th century or earlier. The south front is constructed of red-brown brick in a Flemish bond pattern with stone dressings, while the rear wing utilizes orange brick. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate.

The house is arranged in an L-shape, comprising a double-depth main range with a two-room, central entrance hall on the south front, and a two-room wing to the rear right. The main range is two stories and three bays, presenting a symmetrical facade. A plinth is visible. The entrance features a painted ashlar Doric doorcase with attached columns supporting an entablature with a moulded cornice, hood, and blocking course. The door itself is half-glazed, consisting of eight panes over two fielded panels, and an overlight with geometric glazing bars and margin lights. Large sixteen-pane sashes are set within projecting stone sills, beneath channelled and keyed wedge lintels. A moulded wooden cornice runs along the top. The roof is hipped, and there are corniced side wall stacks with flush blue brick bands.

The left return, which is two bays wide, has sixteen-pane and four-pane ground-floor sashes, a sixteen-pane sash, and a blind window panel on the first floor, all with surrounds similar to those on the south front. The rear wing has a recessed six-panelled door beneath a brick cambered arch, flanked by a 20th-century casement to the left and a sixteen-pane sash to the right, both beneath brick flat arches. A blind first-floor panel is situated above the door, with a four-pane flush sash to the right. A hipped roof, as well as ridge and side wall stacks, completes the wing. The right return features a round-headed stair window with margin bars to the main range, a blind window panel, a sixteen-pane sash, and four-pane sashes to the rear wing.

Inside the main south range, moulded cornices are present, along with ribbed surrounds to the ceilings and basket-arched openings to the entrance hall and upper stairhall. An open-well staircase displays a wreathed handrail, plain stick balusters, and profiled cheek-pieces. The main ground-floor and first-floor front rooms also have moulded cornices. Original panelled stone or marble chimney-pieces are found in three first-floor bedrooms. Six-fielded and six-beaded-panel doors are set within architraves throughout. The rear wing’s central ground-floor room has a mid-18th century wooden chimney-piece with a panelled frieze, a late 17th to early 18th century ovolo-moulded spine beam with stepped tongue stop (likely reset), and seven-fielded-panel doors.

The hall stands on the site of a former medieval manor house, close to the former River Don.