Ingoldisthorpe Hall

Ingoldisthorpe Hall is a country house dated 1757, originally built as Mount Amelia for John Davy Esq. The main body is of high-quality red brick in English bond with raised pointing, featuring stone and stucco dressings, and slated roofs with carstone wings. The house comprises a five-bay central block set on a half-basement, flanked by two parallel wings of irregular bay rhythm.

The west front, facing the Park, has four half-basement, four ground, and five first-floor sash windows with glazing bars, each set under flat, rubbed brick arches with brick dressings. A central stone staircase with simple cast iron baluster railings leads to the main entrance, which is framed by a wooden architrave with fluted pilasters, richly detailed Corinthian capitals, a frieze displaying Rococo motifs, and a modillion cornice. The entrance features glazed French doors with two fixed lights above. Two lead downpipes bearing the initials RD and the date 1757, with heraldry, are present. A stone cornice sits above a stuccoed parapet with lugged angles and a central lugged pedestal, returning with sweeps and stacks. The roof is hipped.

The east entrance front, built with brick of lesser quality, has five bays and a central porch added around 1820. It features four arched-headed windows on the ground floor and four straight-headed, rubbed brick arched windows on both the ground and first floors, all with sash windows and glazing bars. Two downpipes, dated 1757, are visible. The two-storey porch has abstract Greek Revival stuccoed pilaster strips, with an entablature continuing on returns, and a central two-leaf raised and fielded panel door, with three panels above. A first-floor landing window, with a sash and glazing bars, is set within a stucco architrave. Returns feature a single ground-floor sash window with margin lights and an abstract stuccoed panel with an eaves cornice and a stuccoed parapet to both the porch and the main block.

The carstone wings have irregular fenestration, mainly sash windows with glazing bars, a stuccoed parapet, and swept north and south gables. A later 19th-century addition is attached to the east of the north wing.

Inside, the west ground-floor hall features a central stucco Zeus eagle with thunderbolts. The inner hall has repositioned stairs from 1757, now projecting into the circa 1820 porch, displaying carved strings and alternating turned and fluted balusters on urn bases. The first-floor landing arch from 1757 incorporates a late 18th-century carved panel and 20th-century doors. On the ground floor to the south is a mid-18th century marble fireplace with a central sunburst head, egg and dart architrave, and additional circa 1820 brackets to the shelf. Another mid-18th century fireplace with egg and dart moulding and a circa 1820 frieze is located on the ground floor to the north, accessed through an archway. Both rooms have panelled dados and plaster moulded panelling above. Two principal rooms on the west front have panelled north and south walls with mid-18th century fireplaces. Throughout the house are good six-panelled raised and fielded doors.