Naburn Hall

Naburn Hall is a small country house situated just off the B1222 road in North Yorkshire. The main block dates to the early 18th century, with significant additions and alterations made in 1815, around 1920, and in 1859. It was originally built for the Palme family. The house is constructed of pinkish-brown brick, with rendered sections, magnesian limestone dressings, and a concealed Welsh slate roof; the chapel has yellow brick with a cast tile roof. The building has three storeys and originally three bays, with a later wing added to the right, featuring two first-floor windows.

The original 18th-century block has a plinth. What was once a central entrance is now obscured by an early 20th-century canted bay, and the current entrance is located off-centre, leading to a veranda that covers the third bay. The ground floor has a mix of two-pane sashes and casements, with a first-floor band running across the facade. The upper floors feature 12-pane sashes; the window above the original entrance is set within an eared architrave with vertical tooling and a keystone, beneath an ashlar plaque displaying a coat of arms that interrupts the second-floor band. There are unequally-hung 9-pane sashes on the second floor, with an ashlar sill to the central window. A fire escape descends from the central second-floor window. A moulded ashlar coping tops the walls, and the roof is hipped with clusters of tall ridge stacks.

The wing added to the right has an early 20th-century bay window to the ground floor with 2-pane sashes, a first-floor band, 12-pane sashes, and a low parapet above. The rear chapel is a three-bay structure with a pointed entrance leading to two further pointed window openings.

Internally, the early 18th-century dining room showcases panelling with egg and dart moulding, a pedimented doorcase with a pulvinated oak-leaf frieze, an eared chimney piece with a moulded and pedimented overmantel, an oak leaf and dentil cornice, and a panelled ceiling with a Greek key moulding. The staircase hall features an open-well staircase with column balusters on bulbous vase bases, two per tread. The original staircase window architrave, now leading into the 19th-century wing, has Corinthian pilasters and a moulded frieze. The ceiling of the staircase hall is decorated with egg and dart moulding and a dentil and acanthus moulded cornice. A further, closed-string service staircase with turned balusters leads to the second floor. Some rooms contain what appears to be re-used 17th-century panelling, and there are both 18th-century eight-panel doors in recessed fielded-panel surrounds on the ground floor and six-panel doors in similar surrounds on the first floor. A bathroom retains 18th-century panelling and a fireplace. Shutters are fitted to some windows. The 19th-century wing contains fireplaces with classical ornamentation, and in the first-floor sitting room, a frieze depicts nymphs holding swags, baskets of fruit, and women weeping over urns. The back kitchen contains a cast-iron range made by Walter of York.