Hunmanby Hall

Hunmanby Hall is a hall, now used as a school, with a core dating to the early 17th century. It was extended with a service crosswing in the later 17th century, and then considerably altered around 1700 with a refronting and the addition of a second crosswing. 19th-century alterations and an extension followed, and further extension, remodelling, and reversal occurred around 1928. The hall is constructed of red brick in English garden wall bond, with sandstone dressings, and has a pantile roof.

The main range features a staircase tower and crosswings. The front elevation, dating to around 1700, is a three-storey, three-bay arrangement with a 1:3:1 bay arrangement, flanked by crosswing gables. Quoined ground-floor elements extend forward and incorporate former front portions. The centre bay projects, defined by raised quoins. It features a half-glazed and panelled front door with a divided overlight, approached by stone steps, within an eared architrave featuring a pulvinated frieze and pediment above the cornice. Twelve-pane sashes, with moulded stone sills in keyed architraves, are found throughout. Segmental pediments adorn the centre-bay windows on the first and second floors, also within keyed, eared architraves. A chamfered plinth band runs along the base, with cornice bands at the second-floor and eaves levels; a plain parapet tops the structure, and a hipped roof covers the main range. Coped gables, kneelers, and end stacks are present on the crosswing gables.

The entrance front, originally the rear of the building, is a two-storey and attic, three-bay arrangement, also flanked by crosswing gables linked by a 20th-century three-bay arcade. A gabled staircase tower contains a later inserted, part-glazed and panelled door and a twelve-pane first-floor sash, both within 20th-century enriched stone architraves. A twelve-pane sash sits beneath a round-headed brick arch on the second floor. Further twelve-pane sashes are present with thin timber lintels either side of the tower. Late 19th-century floral and foliate moulded guttering runs above the ground floor windows and alongside the principal entrance. 20th-century dormers are incorporated within a mansard roof. A tumbled brick gable and stack are also visible. 20th-century Dutch gables are present on the crosswing end walls. The garden front, two storeys in height, has been extended to the left with a two-story canted bay window, with twelve-pane sashes and gauged brick arches to the roof.

The interior features a 17th-century closed string, dogleg staircase to the tower, with turned balusters and a moulded handrail. A later 18th-century staircase was reset at the end of the 18th-century wing featuring a carved, closed string, barley-sugar and vase balusters, with a moulded handrail that ramps up to the half landing and first floor, incorporating a Bolection moulded panelled area at the foot of the stairs. Further Bolection-moulded panelling is found in the centre room of the 18th-century crosswing. 20th-century school buildings to the north of the Hall are not considered of particular interest.