Fockerby Hall

SE 81 NW GARTHORPE AND STATION ROAD FOCKERBY (north side) Fockerby 4/15 Fockerby Hall

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House. Early-mid C19 with rear wing of C18 or earlier origins. South front of red-brown stock brick in Flemish bond with stone dressings; orange brick to rear wing. Welsh slate roofs. L-shaped on plan: double-depth main range with 2-room, central entrance-hall south front, and 2-room wing to rear right. 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical. Plinth. Entrance has step to painted ashlar Doric doorcase with attached columns carrying entablature with moulded cornice, hood and blocking course. Half-glazed door (8 panes over 2 fielded panels) beneath overlight with geometric glazing bars and margin lights in reveal. Large 16-pane sashes with projecting stone sills beneath channelled and keyed wedge lintels. Moulded wooden cornice. Hipped roof. Corniced side wall stacks with flush blue brick bands. Left return, of 2 bays, has 16-pane and 4-pane ground-floor sashes, 16-pane sash and blind window panel to first floor, all in similar surrounds to south front. Rear wing has recessed 6-panelled door beneath brick cambered arch, flanked by C20 casement to left and 16-pane sash to right beneath brick flat arch; blind first-floor panel above door, with 4-pane flush sash to right. Hipped roof, ridge and side wall stacks. Right return has round-headed stair window with margin bars to main range, blind window panel, 16-pane sash and 4-pane sashes to rear wing. Interior. Main south range has moulded cornices, ribbed surrounds to ceilings and basket-arched openings to entrance hall and upper stairhall; open-well staircase with wreathed handrail, plain stick balusters and profiled cheek-pieces. Moulded cornices to main ground-floor and first-floor front rooms, original panelled stone or marble chimney-pieces to 3 first-floor bedrooms; 6-fielded and 6-beaded- panel doors in architraves. Rear wing: central ground-floor room has mid C18 wooden chimney-piece with panelled frieze, late C17 - early C18 ovolo- moulded spine beam with stepped tongue stop (probably reset), and 7-fielded- panel doors. Stands on site of medieval manor house beside former River Don.

Listing NGR: SE8469919041