Scampston Hall And Gateways, Walls And Terminal Piers Attached To South Front

A country house dating from the late 17th century, originally built for William Hustler. The house was altered in the late 18th century for Sir William St Quintin, 5th Baronet, and remodelled in 1803 for Sir William Thomas St Quintin, 6th Baronet, by Thomas Leverton. The house is constructed of orange-red brick, lime-washed at the rear, with stuccoed frontages, and has a slate roof with stuccoed brick stacks. Gateways and terminal piers are of sandstone ashlar.

The west front, which serves as the entrance front, is two storeys high with seven bays. The centre three bays bow outwards behind a detached hemicycle of giant Tuscan columns in antis. Shallow steps lead to paired double doors with ornamental panels in the centre bays. Ground-floor windows are tall 12-pane sashes with console-bracketed floating cornices; first-floor windows are 9-pane sashes with stone sills. A moulded eaves cornice sits beneath a parapet, balustraded over the centre bays and flanking windows. Stacks are positioned at the centre left and right.

The south front, the garden front, is also two storeys high, with nine bays. A central bow, articulated by giant Tuscan pilasters, has an attic storey with a dome above. The windows are similar to those on the entrance front. A moulded eaves cornice runs beneath a balustraded parapet over the windows, with 6-pane sashes to the domed attic. Hipped roofs terminate in stacks, and a bellcote sits at the summit of the right hip. A radial-glazed staircase window is visible at the rear, right side. Other openings are characterised by flat arches.

The gateway is approximately 2.9 metres high, featuring a segmental arch with a fasciated keystone in a rusticated triple surround and a moulded cornice. The opening is topped with ball-and-pedestal finials. Walls flank the gateways, standing about 1.9 metres high with moulded coping. The terminal piers have rebated square bands of rustication, moulded cornices and ball-and-pedestal finials.

The south-west drawing room contains a moulded frieze and cornice. The central library features built-in bookcases between Tuscan pilasters and columns in scagliola flanking the bow window. It also has a moulded frieze and cornice. The east dining room has plaster-panelled walls with beaded mouldings and a sideboard recess framed by Tuscan columns with an entablature. On the north side, a grand open-string imperial staircase has diamond-trellis panels alternating with three stick balusters, and a moulded handrail wreathed at the foot. A small library on the east end includes built-in bookcases. Fine, panelled mahogany doors, typical of Thomas Leverton's work elsewhere, are found in all main ground-floor rooms.