Youlton Hall

SE 46 SE YOULTON YOULTON STREET

1/40 Youlton Hall

20.6.63

GV II

House, remains of much larger building. C16, late Cl7 and early C18, rebuilding of 1963. Timber frame of c1500 encased in brick late Cl7 and early C18; pantile roof. 2 storeys. L-shaped plan: hall on left, gable-end on, with wing at right-angles on right. Hall: truncated 1963, front gable now C20 work with 2 20-pane sash bow windows to ground floor and an 8-pane bow window above. Stepped brick kneelers, shaped gable with brick coping. 2 lateral stacks on left, the front one large and added late C16. Right return has a 16-pane sash in flush wood architrave to ground floor and a tripartite sash above. Wing: 2 lst-floor windows. Central 4-panel door in wooden doorcase with frieze and cornice. 12-pane sashes to ground floor, those to left of door with glazing bars and flush wood architrave, two to right under cambered brick arches. 2 side-sliding sashes above. Stepped and dentilled eaves. Stepped brick kneelers. Central diamond-set ridge stack and another to right end. Rear of hall: remains of 2 brick dripmoulds over renewed lst-floor windows. Oeils-de-boeuf with brick hoodmould above. Shaped dutch gable. Interior: hall has large fireplace with inglenook and bressummer, and reputedly a hiding-place inserted in the late C16 (see former list description); large-scanning spine-beams and joists. Wing also has large fireplace with inglenook and bressummer and large-scantling beams. The house is on a moated site where the younger branch of the Roos family of Helmsley had a seat. This passed by marriage to the Ellerker family who resided here from 1345 to the end of Cl7 (VCH, p89). VCH North Riding, Vol 2, p89.

Listing NGR: SE4910663424