Earby Hall

NZ 10 NW NEWSHAM MOOR LANE (south side, off)

5/100 Earby Hall

• II

Farmhouse, now house. Early C18 main range, added onto late C17 rear wing. Coursed dressed sandstone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs. L- shaped plan, the front main range of 2 storeys and loft, 4 bays, with 3- storey wing to rear left. Front elevation: ashlar plinth; chamfered rusticated ashlar quoins. In third bay, C19 4-panel door in eared ashlar architrave with bases, pulvinated frieze and pediment. Sash windows with glazing bars in raised ashlar architraves. Between second and third first- floor windows, an inserted C20 oculus in architrave. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Ashlar end stacks. Single-storey outbuilding to right not of special interest. Rear: C20 single-storey flat-roofed porch with leaved 6-panel doors; C18 round-arched landing window with ashlar surround of Tuscan pilasters and moulded archivolt with tripartite keystone. Left return of rear wing: quoins to right; blocked doorway, and on each floor paired 16-pane sash windows in ashlar surrounds with impost blocks; cavetto kneeler, ashlar coping and end stack to right. Right return of front range: first-floor sash window with glazing bars in plain ashlar surround; boarded loft opening with double-chamfered ashlar surround. Interior: front range: 2-panel doors; dogleg staircase with thick turned balusters and heavy swept handrail; first-floor saloon had a fireplace at each end; in the rear wing, stone staircase with moulded nosing, now deeply worn, formerly extending up to second floor; first-floor joists of rounded section supporting very wide butt-jointed floorboards. The house was used as a "London School" in the late 18th century and again in the mid 19th century. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 954.

Listing NGR: NZ1038009633