Remains Of Former Kirby Hall, And Attached Gateway, Walls And Carriage Gate Piers

KIRBY HALL KIRBY HALL ESTATE SE 4460-4560 10/33 Remains of former Kirby 15/3/66 Hall, and attached gateway, walls and carriage-gate piers (part formerly listed as Curtain Wall at Kirby Hall) GV II Remains of country house and forecourt walls, yard gateway and carriage- gate piers. 1747-c.1755. By Lord Burlington and Roger Morris for Stephen Thompson. Limestone ashlar. House wall with angled and quadrant wall at left. 7-bay, rusticated house basement with former portico-opening in centre flanked by square window openings beneath flat arches of voussoirs. To left, yard gate in rusticated, segment-arched opening in wall with moulded cornice and ball finials. Round-headed plank door with pegged-on panelling. Forecourt walls are approximately 2.25 metres high, on plain plinth, with square-section pilaster piers and ball finials, and ramped up to yard gateway. Angled section left of yard gate is balustraded, on moulded plinth, with moulded coping. Banded rusticated, square-section carriage gate piers, approximately 4.5 metres high on moulded bases, with moulded cornices, stepped-up caps and pineapple finials. The Hall was demolished in the early 1920s and is illustrated in Vitruvius Brittanicus, Vol.V, plates 70 and 71. See also: H.Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840; Country Life, 17 February, 1972,p.388; York Georgian Society Annual Reports for 1972 and 1985; York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr.

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