Helperby Hall Forecourt Railings To Street And Forecourt Wall To North

Helperby Hall is a manor house associated with the Coates family, originally built in 1709 and later altered in 1889. The part now known as the 'Old Hall', which is the southernmost range closest to the street, is an 18th-century structure that was modified in the late 19th century and extended to form a U-shape with six bays arranged in a 2:2:2 pattern to the south. The turreted entrance wing to the north was added in 1923, while the northernmost range features a Dutch gable and dates from 1914, built by the Helperby Estate. The Victorian and Edwardian work was carried out by Charles Sayer.

The 18th-century facade, altered in the late 19th century, is made of reddish-brown brick and includes a first-floor band, a stone modillion eaves cornice, and a hipped green slate roof with three pedimented dormers and a tall chimney. The house has two storeys and three bays, with 19th-century full-height canted bays on each side featuring sash windows with glazing bars. There are segmental stone steps leading to a central entrance, which has a 20th-century door and an oblong fanlight. The 19th-century doorcase is adorned with Ionic columns, a frieze, and a dentilled cornice. Above the entrance, there is a sash window with glazing bars set in a flush wood architrave with a gauged red brick flat arch.

Inside, there is a back staircase likely from the early 18th century, made of oak with a closed string, turned balusters, and square newels. The forecourt features wrought iron railings on a dwarf brick wall with stone coping, along with brick gatepiers topped with stone ball finials. The northern extension, constructed in red brick, includes a turreted entrance with a stone Doric portico, a frieze, and an attic beneath a segmental pediment. The northernmost wing has a square tower with a cupola and a Dutch gabled facade, along with casement windows featuring leaded lights. The courtyard is accessed through a pair of wrought iron gates and railings on a dwarf wall, with rusticated stone piers and ball finials. A curving brick wall in red brick with stepped and cogged coping slopes to the ridge, included for group value considerations.