Brawith Hall

SE 48 NW KNAYTON WITH BRAWITH BRAWITH HALL 1/9 1.5.52 Brawith Hall GV II* Large house. First quarter C18 with later alterations and additions including rear range of later C19 on site of medieval manor. Red and pale brown brick in Flemish bond with sandstone ashlar dressings. Hipped, graduated Westmorland slate roof with brick stacks, concealed by parapet. Two storeys with high parapet. South front: red brick. Five bays with giant pilasters 1-3-1 on ashlar plinth. Three steps to central entrance. Part-glazed door in eaved architrave with consoles supporting a pediment with pulvinated frieze. Tall, narrow sashes with glazing bars in ashlar architraves with coved lintels and chamfered cills. Chamfered 1st floor band. Window to entrance bay in channelled surround. Cyma moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze to 1st floor and further cornice to parapet. East and west facades: pale brown brick with red brick parapet and ashlar dressing. Four bays. Sashes with glazing bars under gauged red brick flat arches. Two bays of east facade rebuilt in C20. Interior: staircase hall:cantilevered cut-string staircase with 3 different balusters of bulb and gadroon type per tread, ramped moulded handrail with Greek key motif, spiral curtail and turned newel with volute to foot. Panelled dado follows line of stair. Dentilled cornice to ground floor. Dome to 1st floor flanked by oblong panels, modillion cornice. Early C18 decorative schemes to south-east and south-west rooms. The latter has eared panelling above a dado and a dentil and modillion cornice. Sashes in projecting wave-moulded cases with cornices and shutters. Two 6-panel doors flanking chimney piece and a further one leading to the north-west room with panelled soffits in architraves with Greek key motif surmounted by dentil and modillion pediments with pulvinated bay-leaf friezes. Marble fireplace with overmantel flanked by Corinthian pilasters. The north-west room has slightly later decoration including good foliate carving.

Brawith Hall belonged to the Danby family in the first half of the C17. After the Civil War, in 1656, it passed into the hands of Edmund Barstow of Northallerton, a member of the same family. Bought in 1702 by Mrs Peacock, also of the same family, it has descended down the family to its present owners.

Listing NGR: SE4104387287