Westerdale Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North York Moors National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1990. House, youth hostel. 1 related planning application.
Westerdale Hall
- WRENN ID
- steep-turret-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North York Moors National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1990
- Type
- House, youth hostel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 60 NE WESTERDALE MAIN STREET Westerdale West side (off)
6/146 Westerdale Hall
II
House, now Youth Hostel. Shooting-box for the Duncombe family, before 1874. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate and lead roofs. Baronial Tudor style. Square plan with canted south-eastern extensions enclosing service courtyard.
Very irregular elevations ranging in height from 1 to 5 storeys, with even higher tower stair turret. Crow-stepped gables. Stone- mullioned windows of varying sizes, some with transoms; window woodwork mostly replaced.
Entrance front 2 storeys and attics of varying heights, 3 irregular bays. Central open porch with Tudor arch and blank shield over. Tudor-arched inner door. At left the canted screen wall has another such door and to left of it an octagonal pavilion with tented lead roof. Right return has battered lower courses and some original leaded glazing in window heads. 3-bay garden front has gabled left bay with 2-storey square window projection, central stair window with armorial glass, and massive 5-storey battlemented tower at right.
Row of conjoined diagonal stacks above the left ridge and another row on the 2-storey service wing on south side of courtyard.
Pevsner, N. Riding p.384.
Listing NGR: NZ6625106020
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