Kirkby Fleetham Hall

SE 29 NE 1/57 22.8.66

KIRKBY FLEETHAM WITH FENCOTE KIRKBY LANE (north side off) Kirkby Fleetham Hall (formerly listed as Kirkby Hall)

GV II*

Country house. Mid/late C18 with earlier origins. Mostly rebuilt in later C18 for William Aislabie for his daughter, Ann Sophie, heiress of Studley Royal, near Ripon. Then sold to the Courage family. Ashlar, rendered, stone dressings, graduated stone slate and lead roofs. Main block: 2 storeys plus basement and attics, 7 bays, 1:5:1. To left a linking wall and 1 bay pavilion, to right a 1-storey, 3-bay wing. Main block: 4 steps up to double half-glazed door in stone architrave and Doric surround with frieze and cornice. Continuous sill band. 2 bays to either side have sashes with glazing bars in stone surrounds with cornices. Outer bays break forward and have exposed ashlar strips to corners. Each has Venetian window with glazing bars in stone surround, set in round-arched recess, plain ashlar apron below the sill band. First floor: sashes with glazing bars in stone surrounds with sills, apart from that above door which is a tripartite window with similar surround and sashes, but with central light cambered. Cornice and blocking course to central 5 bays. Outer bays pedimented with moulded cornices. 5 central bays have 6-pane sash dormer windows. Roofs hipped with ridge stacks. Left-hand side: ramped linking wall of 1 bay, to left a 6-panel door with overlight. Sashes with glazing bars to right and above to left. To right on first floor a small 8-pane sash. All openings in stone surrounds. To left a 1 bay pavilion breaks forward. C20 garage door, above a sash with glazing bars. Roof hipped with domed cupola with bell, Doric columns, frieze and cornice. To right of main block a 1-storey wing: to left a 6-panel door, to its right 2 sashes with glazing bars with small 4-pane window between. North front: 11 bays, central 5 bays similar to main front except ground-floor has full-height 18-pane sashes and first floor has smaller 6-pane casements, outer 3 bays to either side bowed and projecting forward, 18-pane ground-floor sashes, 12-pane sashes over. Interior: servants' staircase of c1785 with thin turned balusters. Main staircase of the C19. Some doorcases in Adam style with decorated friezes and cornices. Dining room has good painted Neoclassical fireplace with painted scenes in panels. Bowed rooms to either side retain original cornices.

Listing NGR: SE2813695673