Kirklinton Hall

Kirklinton Hall is a house, with a core possibly dating from around 1661, constructed using stone from nearby Levington Hall for Edmund Appleby. It was significantly extended in 1875 for the Kirklinton-Saul family. The house is primarily built of calciferous sandstone coursed rubble, with dressed stone and ashlar detailing; the roof is mostly gone, but where remaining, it is covered with graduated slate, and features stone chimney stacks. It has two and three storeys and a roughly ‘E’ shaped layout, with numerous bays.

The original core is a three-storey, five-bay section with a rendered front, and a four-bay wing of coursed rubble facing the road. The central entrance has been renewed, featuring a round-headed doorway flanked by twin Doric columns on a plinth. Ground and first floor windows are sash windows with architraves and entablatures incorporating a pulvinated frieze. A left-hand ground floor window is attached to a door. The second floor has square windows with wooden casements, similar entablatures and friezes, shaped gables, and a modillion eaves cornice, all added in 1875. The wing facing the road originally had sash windows (most now removed) and gable ends treated to resemble Jacobean style additions.

The 1875 additions include a two-storey wing with an attic, constructed in ashlar. One wing mirrors the road-facing wing, and the other is a large, L-shaped block added to it. The matching wing has shaped gable ends, an escutcheon in the gable, shell niches above the ground floor entrance and a first-floor triple window resembling a Venetian window. The short section of the ‘L’ that connects to the original house has three bays with a projecting right-hand side and cornices above the ground and first floors. A shaped gable dormer with a finial is in the centre. The long part of the ‘L’ comprises five symmetrical bays and one at the south-west end; a three-window ashlar bow is in the centre with a balustraded parapet. Triple windows are positioned on the second and sixth bays, with single windows on the first, third and fifth. Shaped gable dormers are above the second, fourth and sixth bays, and the first, third and fifth bays have plain segmental hoods.

The rear of the north-west wing is similarly treated in coursed rubble, with a central ashlar projection flanked by three-window bays. At the time of survey, the house was dilapidated, with the roof being stripped of slates.