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

SCAMPSTON SCAMPSTON HALL ESTATE SE 87 NE 4/48 Scampston Hall and gateways, walls and terminal piers attached 20.9.57 to south front (formerly listed as "Scampston Hall") - II* Country house. Late C17 house built for William Hustler. Altered in late C18 for Sir William St Quintin, 5th Baronet. Remodelled in 1803 for Sir William Thomas St Quintin, 6th Baronet, by Thomas Leverton. Orange-red brick, lime-washed at rear, stuccoed on other fronts. Slate roof with stuccoed brick stacks. Gateways and terminal piers of sandstone ashlar. Entrance front (west): 2 storeys, 7 bays. Low plinth: 3 centre bays bowed behind a detached hemicycle of giant Tuscan columns in antis. Shallow steps up to paired double doors of ornamental panels in centre bays. All ground- floor windows are tall 12-pane sashes under console-bracketed floating cornices. First-floor windows are 9-pane sashes with stone sills. Moulded eaves cornice beneath parapet, balustraded over centre bays and flanking windows. Centre left and right stacks. Garden front (south): 2 storeys, 9 bays. Centre bow, articulated by giant Tuscan pilasters, has attic storey above, with dome. All windows are similar to those on entrance front. Moulded eaves cornice beneath parapet, balustraded over windows. 6-pane sashes to domed attic. Left- and right-of centre stacks to hipped roof. Bellcote at summit of right hip. Rear: radial-glazed staircase window at right. Other openings have flat arches. Gateways, walls and terminal piers: gateway approximately 2.9 metres high; segmental arch with fasciated keystone in rusticated triple surround; moulded cornice, arched over opening between ball-and-pedestal finials. Walls on each side of gateways, approximately 1.9 metres high, with moulded coping. Terminal piers of rebated square bands of rustication with moulded cornices and ball-and- pedestal finials. Interior: south side west drawing room has moulded frieze and cornice. Centre library has built-in bookcases between Tuscan pilasters and Tuscan columns in scagliola flanking the bow window; moulded frieze and cornice. East dining room has plaster-panelled walls with beaded mouldings; sideboard recess framed by Tuscan columns with entablature. North side at west end an open-string, imperial staircase, with diamond-trellis panels alternating with 3 stick balusters, and moulded handrail wreathed at the foot. East end small library with built-in bookcases. All the main ground- floor rooms have fine panelled mahogany doors of a type used by Thomas Leverton elsewhere. Arthur Oswald, "Scampston Hall, Yorkshire, I and II", Country Life, 1st and 8th April 1954.

Listing NGR: SE8647275529