Yockenthwaite Hall With Attached Outbuilding And Garden Wall And Gate To Front

SD 97 NW BUCKDEN YOCKENTHWAITE

6/51 Yockenthwaite Hall with attached 10.9.54 outbuilding and garden wall and gate to front

GV II

Large house with attached outbuildings and front wall and gate. Mid-late C18. Coursed squared gritstone, ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays with attached lower 2-bay outbuilding to left. House: raised quoins; 6 fielded panels to door, bay 3, in eared architrave with pulvinated frieze and modillioned pediment; casement windows in sawn stone surrounds throughout; moulded eaves cornice; gable copings; banded stacks to each end and to ridge between bays 1 and 2. Range to left: board door with plain shouldered surround, window to right (ground and first floor) and inserted garage doors left. Low garden wall to front of 4 to 5 courses of gritstone, with flat coping; railings replaced. The gate is probably C19, reusing fine wrought ironwork probably contemporary with the house; it has C and S scrolls with leaves and a flower motif. Interior of house: central narrow entrance hall, large stair hall at rear of 2 straight flights, ramped handrail and plain balusters, panelled reveals to staircase window. Ceiling cornice to entrance and stair hall, and to main ground-floor room, left, which has a fine pine and plaster fireplace in Adam style with fluted pilasters, plaque with lion and vine scroll in relief, black marble inner surround with multicoloured stone fan, a cast- iron basket grate with flanking panels decorated with classical masks, bucrania and tripods with figures. The dado rail is of carved moulded wood. The rear rooms of the house are the large kitchen (left) with stone fireplace and cast-iron range, and the larder or dairy to right of stair hall, with recesses and meat hooks. The door surround is very similar to that at Buckden House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD9055079059