Steeton Manor Including Balustrade And Steps

SE0244 STEETON-WITH-EASTBURN C.P. SKIPTON ROAD (south side, off)

11/200 Steeton Manor including balustrade and steps.

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Large house with balustrade. c1894 by Sir Swire-Smith. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. Tudor Revival style. 3 storeys and attic. North front U-shaped with projecting wings under 3 gables. Porch with balustraded parapet set between wings with tall mullioned and transomed stair-window (for back-stair) above. Double-chamfered mullioned windows to each floor. Projecting oriel at 1st floor has cross- window. Coped gables with finials to apex and linking embattled parapet which runs round return walls. Rear : 2 storeys with 3 attic gables. 2-storey porch with embattled parapet and finials has main entrance doorway with segmental-arched hood carved with date. To right, tall stair-window of 3 lights with landing and 4 transoms. Ground floor has 2 mullioned-and-transomed windows of 4 lights with 3-light windows above. 2 large stacks to ridge. Left-hand return wall has other mullioned windows and main feature of projecting stack with many offsets and mullioned windows set in the side angles. Balustrade to left of front, of Haddon-Hall type, with arched arcade and Gothic coping surmounted by ball-finials. Steps have similar balustrade to lower level at front.

Interior : Entrance stair-hall has open-well staircase with turned balusters, ramped handrail and pendentive bosses. Panelled, ribbed, plaster ceilings. Window with elaborate leaded panes and painted glass. Other plaster ceilings to sitting room and dining room which has particularly elaborate ceiling with pendentive bosses decorated with rose motif.

Listing NGR: SE0246144274