Kingthorpe House And Iron Railings Attached To Steps On Garden Front

The property is a house, dating from the mid-18th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the early 19th century and later. It has a double-depth central stairhall plan with a rear service wing. The entrance front is constructed of sandstone ashlar on a tooled sandstone plinth, with dressed sandstone to the sides. The roof is slate-covered, and there are rendered stacks. The main range is two storeys and three windows wide, flanked by two-storey, attic-level, three-window projecting gabled wings linked by a 20th-century extension; further single-storey wings are located on either side. A central six-panel door is situated beneath a divided overlight, within an open-pedimented doorcase with corbelled pilaster jambs. Tripartite 16-pane sash windows are present on the left and right of the entrance front. A round-headed, Gothick-glazed window with raised architrave is positioned on the first floor. Tall 16-pane sashes with flat arches of voussoirs are found on the ground floor of the wings, with similar square windows on the first floor and lunettes in raised surrounds to the gables. The garden front features a two-storey, three-bay arrangement. A central six-panel door is set beneath a patterned radial fanlight, within an open-pedimented Doric doorcase with detached columns, leaf frond capitals, and paterae to the vestigial frieze. Stone steps with ramped up iron railings on turned standards lead to the entrance. A round-arched window above the door has reticulated Gothick glazing in a raised surround with imposts and a bracketed stone sill. Full-height bow windows are located to the left and right, featuring tripartite curved sashes and tooled stone sills. The interior includes a cantilevered open-string dogleg staircase with slender turned balusters and a moulded wreathed handrail, along with foliage-decorated cheekpieces. Fine early 19th-century fireplaces with moulded decoration, possibly by Thomas Wolstenholme of York, are found in the ground floor front room to the right and both rear rooms.