Swinithwaite Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1967. Country house. 1 related planning application.

Swinithwaite Hall

WRENN ID
stark-casement-ebony
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Country
England
Date first listed
13 February 1967
Type
Country house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SE 08 NW WEST WITTON SWINITHWAITE

8/119 Swinithwaite Hall 13/2/67

GV II*

Country house. Dated 1767 and 1795. Later work by John Foss of Richmond, for T.J. Anderson. Roughcast rubble with ashlar dressings, ashlar garden front, stone slate roof. H plan, 2 storeys. South front, 1:3:1. Chamfered quoins. Central part-glazed door in architrave with pulvinated frieze and pediment above supported on consoles. Sash windows in architraves. Band. Outer bays form short wings projecting forward at right angles, with hipped roofs. Corniced stacks at inner junctions of wings. In angles, lead rainwater pipes with heads dated 1767 and intertwined initials 'T.J.A'. Rear elevation has rainwater heads dated 1795. East return, garden front, probably of 1795. 5 bays, the central one projecting slightly, with chamfered quoins. Central part-glazed door in architrave, with pedimented Tuscan doorcase. Above, Tuscan Venetian window with keystone, rising up into pedimented gable of central bay. Sash windows in architraves. Moulded cornice. Hipped roof. Interior: in front hall, C17 oak panelling with Grinling Gibbons carving to overmantel, said to have come from a house by Wren. Rooms have neo-classical fireplaces, and good modillion cornices. Staircase with column-on-vase balusters.

Listing NGR: SE0456589240

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