Coleby Hall

LOW ABBOTSIDE GRANGE SD 99 SW 8/164 Coleby Hall, formerly called Bowbridge Hall GV II* Manor house. Dated 1655. For John Colby (sic). Roughcast rubble, stone slate roof. E-plan. 2 storeys with attics to bays 1, 3 and 5; 5 bays, bays 1, 3 and 5 gabled and projecting. Central tower porch has round-arched ashlar doorway with moulded capitals, ogee-chamfered arris and hood-mould. I C Above, square plaque with weathered raised legend "1655". Stone benches inside porch, and studded board door to inner square-headed doorway with hood-mould and ovolo, fillet and hollow-moulding to arris. Board door in chamfered ashlar surround to right of bay 5. Double-chamfered mullion and transom windows, the same on every floor of each bay: 4-light with hood- moulds to first bay; 2-light with dripstones to second bay; 3-light with hood-mould to porch; 4-light with extended dripstones to fourth bay; 4-light to fifth bay. Large external end stacks, shafted corniced stack between bays 4 and 5. Left return: 3-light double-chamfered mullion window on ground floor; 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with ogee-moulding on inner chamfer to first floor. Interior: porch gives onto hall, now divided, with chamfered fireplace with pointed arch of fine ashlar voussoirs with masons' marks; parlour to right has fireplace with pointed flat arch of ashlar voussoirs. Stone newel staircase at rear of hall. First floor: sections of plasterwork frieze with fleurs-de-lis on first-floor, also straight-headed chamfered fireplace. Collared-rafter roof trusses. Hartley M & Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village (1979), pp 76-7; VCH i, p 201.

Listing NGR: SD9329991154