Winkburn Hall And Attached Wall

Winkburn Hall and Attached Wall

Country house and attached wall, built circa 1700 with extensions added in 1838 and the mid-19th century. The house was built for the Burnell family. The structure is constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings, featuring a hipped slate roof behind an ashlar parapet. There are 6 rendered chimney stacks. The plinth and quoins are of rusticated ashlar. The building follows an H-plan and is two and a half storeys with seven bays.

The south front is approached by a central single-storey three-bay porch with four Tuscan columns, four pilasters behind, and an entablature. It rises by four steps. The inner doors are panelled with circular lower panels and a fanlight above. Either side are single glazing bar sashes, and two further similar sashes occupy the outer projecting bays. The first floor has five similar sashes, while the top floor, added in 1838, contains five glazing bar pivotal casements. Above a wooden modillion cornice with band sits the 1838 top storey. To the right, set slightly back, is a one and a half storey two-bay red brick wing of 19th-century date with hipped slate roof and brick parapet on a rusticated ashlar plinth. This contains two glazing bar sashes and two glazing bar pivotal casements above. A tall red brick wall with ashlar coping extends from the right side for 18 metres, then turns at right angles. Where it turns are two segmental arched lights with shutters. Behind this wall stand various lean-tos. A one and a half storey three-bay service wing is attached to the rear right of the house.

The north front has five bays with similar plinth, quoins, and bands. A central doorway rises by five steps and contains a double door with a large glazing bar overlight bearing a coat of arms. The architrave is eared with a keystone decorated with a single putto, flanked by single panelled pilasters supporting single consoles with an open pediment. Either side are two glazing bar sashes, with five similar sashes above and five glazing bar pivotal casements on the top floor.

The east front spans seven bays with similar plinth, quoins, and bands. A central doorway rises by five steps with a glazed double door and overlight. The architrave is bolection moulded. It is flanked by single panelled pilasters supporting a triglyph frieze with a keyblock depicting an angel. A segmental pediment sits above. Either side are single glazing bar sashes, with two further similar sashes in the outer projecting bays. Above are five similar sashes and five glazing bar pivotal casements on the top floor. All windows have moulded surrounds. To the left, set back, is a red brick wall with ashlar coping. A hipped slate roof lies behind it, with two stacks and a single glazing bar casement to the top left.

Interior

The entrance hall contains an 18th-century open well staircase with ashlar treads and a richly scrolled cast iron balustrade added in 1838. Around the staircase extends a band decorated with figure-8 motifs and single central fleurons. The plaster ceiling is in Rococo and later style. An Adam style fireplace from Welbeck Abbey is installed here. Two archways lead off from the hall. The arch to the reveal is supported on four decorative brackets and decorated with three egg and dart panels, further ornamented with a central acanthus rosette.

Doorways flanking the fireplace lead to the saloon, with panelled doors decorated at the edges. The doorcases on both sides feature bead and reel and acanthus work with finely carved sopraporte decorated with 18th-century rustic scenes incorporating carvings of vernacular architecture, churches, haystacks, and beehives. These are further decorated with bead and reel and flutes.

The saloon fireplace is decorated with bead and reel, decorative ovals, dentil, and egg and dart. It has a single central carved angel's head, flanked by decorative brackets. The carved wooden overmantel above has edges decorated with foliage and fruit, with a central carving of French horn, lute, and other musical instruments, the whole surmounted by an eagle. A modillion cornice, further decorated with egg and dart and fleuron, runs around the room. The ceiling has an acanthus centre. The skirting is decorated with a ribbon and flower motif.

The door and doorcase from the hall to the library are similarly decorated to those of the saloon, but the library side has a more elaborately decorated door with a more Rococo-style sopraporta and a pediment above. The walls are bolection panelled. The Rococo-style fireplace contains a single central carved panel depicting a wigwam, totem poles, palm trees, figures, and a ship. The ceiling is painted, circa 1820, with a decorative cornice.

A room opposite has a similarly decorated doorcase and door. The window shutters are decorated with flutes and paterae, with surrounds further decorated with bead and reel and acanthus. It contains a marble fireplace with a painted ceiling of circa 1820 showing foliate decoration. The room has a chair rail, decorative skirting, and decorative cornice.

The ceiling of the corridor linking these rooms to the entrance hall is decoratively panelled with a decorative cornice.

A room south of the saloon retains 17th-century bolection panelling with a bolection moulded fireplace. The dogleg back staircase preserves some turned balusters. The first floor contains two 18th-century fireplaces.