Wigthorpe Hall

Wigthorpe Hall is a country house dating to the early 18th century, with later alterations from the late 18th century and an addition of 1872. The west front is constructed of ashlar, with dressed coursed rubble and some red brick elsewhere. It has a parapet concealing a slate roof, two ashlar gable stacks, and projecting chamfered quoins set on a plinth. The main block has two and a half storeys and three bays, featuring ground, first and second floor sill and lintel bands, a cornice, and a blocking course. The central doorway has a part-glazed door within a projecting ashlar surround, topped with a keystone and pediment. Flanking the doorway are late 18th-century bow windows, each containing a central single-glazing-bar sash flanked by smaller, similar sashes. Above the doorway is a single glazing-bar sash, with three sashes in each bow window mirroring the ground-floor arrangement. The top floor has seven small glazing-bar sashes following the pattern of the first floor. To the right, a slightly projecting wing, built in 1872 and constructed of ashlar, rises to the same height. This wing has a hipped slate roof and a single ridge ashlar stack, with moulded eaves. It has two storeys and three bays, set on a plinth with a first-floor band and a band below the eaves, featuring a central low sash flanked by single sashes, with three sashes above. A south side of dressed coursed rubble features a single sash with a canted bay containing three sashes. Above this is a single sash, with three glazing-bar sashes within the bay. A set-back two-storey, three-bay wing, built of red brick and slate, with a yellow brick ridge stack, is located to the right. The north gable end, also of dressed coursed rubble, has a stone-coped gable with kneelers, flush ashlar quoins to the left, and a lower wing of coursed rubble and pantile with a red-brick gable and varied fenestration. The interior includes a colonnaded staircase hall with two plaster columns decorated with foliage, a dog-leg staircase with carved tread ends, and an oval glazing-bar skylight.