The Red House

SE 55 NW MOOR MONKTON HALL LANE (south side)

2/7 The Red House

GV II

House, now school. 1864 with C17 origins and C20 additions. Originally built for Slingsby family. Brick in English bond, ashlar dressings, Westmorland slate roof. Main facade: 2 storeys and attics, 8 bays. Outermost and third bays break forward and are gabled. 3 massive external stacks,and quoins to all angles. Tudor-arched half-glazed door in square- headed frame to third bay. Small round-headed window to first bay. All other bays have 2-light transomed fixed windows except full-length tripartite transomed window to right bay with stepped Tudor-arched lower lights. First-floor band. Small round-arched window to left bay and single-light transomed window to second bay. Stepped 3-light transomed window to third bay and 2-light transomed windows to all other bays. Attics: single-light windows to outer bays, cruciform mock arrow slit to third bay. Flat-topped casement dormers to fourth, sixth and seventh bays. Gable coping, shaped kneelers and right end stack. Right gable end largely of 2" bricks suggesting that the facade is built round an earlier C17 house. Interior: early C18 panelling in central bedroom, some door-frames and the decorative cornice to the dining room may be original features of an earlier house otherwise completely re-fitted in 1864.

Listing NGR: SE5294957085