Youlton Hall

Youlton Hall is a house that represents the remains of a much larger building, dating from the 16th century, with later additions in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and a rebuilding in 1963. The original timber frame from around 1500 is encased in brick from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, topped with a pantile roof. The house has two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with the hall on the left and a wing at right angles on the right.

The hall has been truncated in 1963, and its front gable is now 20th-century work featuring two 20-pane sash bow windows on the ground floor and an 8-pane bow window above. It has stepped brick kneelers, a shaped gable with brick coping, and two lateral stacks on the left, the front one being large and added in the late 16th century. The right return features a 16-pane sash window in a flush wood architrave on the ground floor and a tripartite sash window above. The wing has two first-floor windows and a central four-panel door in a wooden doorcase with a frieze and cornice. The ground floor has 12-pane sashes, with the ones to the left of the door having glazing bars and flush wood architraves, while two to the right are under cambered brick arches. Above, there are two side-sliding sashes. The eaves are stepped and dentilled, with stepped brick kneelers, a central diamond-set ridge stack, and another at the right end.

At the rear of the hall, there are remains of two brick dripmoulds over renewed first-floor windows, an oeil-de-boeuf with a brick hoodmould above, and a shaped Dutch gable. Inside, the hall features a large fireplace with an inglenook and bressummer, and there is reputedly a hiding-place inserted in the late 16th century. The hall also has large-scantling spine beams and joists. The wing contains a large fireplace with an inglenook and bressummer, along with large-scantling beams. The house is situated on a moated site that was once the seat of the younger branch of the Roos family of Helmsley. It later passed by marriage to the Ellerker family, who lived there from 1345 until the end of the 17th century.