Raithby Hall

Raithby Hall is a former small country house, originally the seat of the Brackenbury and Rawnsley families, and now used as a home for the elderly. It was built around 1760, with significant extensions carried out around 1848 and 1873 by Sir George Gilbert Scott, and minor alterations in the 20th century. The house is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar and painted ashlar dressings. It has a Westmorland slate roof, with lead roofs to the bay windows.

The principal front is three stories high, with a rusticated plinth, brick bands on the first and second floors, a dentilated cornice, and a seven-bay arrangement of 3:1:3. The outer triple bays are canted to full height. The central entrance features glazed double doors within an ashlar surround with a triple pilastered design, topped with an open dentilated pediment and a tree and lion crest above the door. Flanking the entrance are three margin-light sashes. The first floor has a central glazing bar sash flanked by three similar windows, and the second floor has seven smaller, similar windows. A small semi-circular fixed light with Gothic tracery is set within the central pediment. A projecting rectangular bay on the left side contains tall, single glazing bar casements in ashlar surrounds to each floor. On the right-hand side of the front is a rectangular bay containing an 18th-century Venetian window with scrolled brackets to either side of the head, likely reset. The remaining windows on the right are four glazing bar sashes to each floor, with segmental heads framed by alternating brick and ashlar voussoirs.

The left-hand side has a pair of half-glazed double panelled doors in a semi-circular headed ashlar surround, with a fluted keyblock, broken pediment, and a central urn. To either side of the entrance are slightly advanced window bays with glazing bar cross mullions to each floor, set within moulded ashlar architraves, panels, and segmental pediments. The parapet above has semi-circular decoration. To the left is a nine-bay, two-story service range, the right half with an ashlar band that continues to the left in brick. The left end has a six-panel door, a glazing bar sash, and a blank opening, all with rubbed brick arched heads. Beyond this is a 20th-century garage door. To the right is a further door and five glazing bar sashes with segmental heads. The first floor has a gabled 19th-century canted oriel window with glazing bar casements, along with seven glazing bar sashes and a blank opening.

The interior was fitted out in the 19th century, featuring semi-circular archways and fluted pilasters. A staircase has large turned newels and knopped balusters. Surviving 18th-century details include a moulded cornice and six-panel doors. Architectural plans, held in the RIBA drawings collection, show proposed extensions by G. G. Scott Jnr. around 1873 for Rev. E. Rawnsley.