Old Hall Farmhouse

SE 46 NW MYTON-ON-SWALE OX CLOSE LANE 4/48 (west side) 28.2.52 Old Hall Farmhouse

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House. 1664 over door. Brick with stone quoins now covered with render. Renewed hipped pantile roof. Modern ridge chimney and very large rendered chimney of early date to gable end. Artisan Mannerist style. L-shaped single pile plan. 2 storeys, 3 wide bays with projecting wings. Doorcase to centre bay has engaged Tuscan columns on plinths. Frieze with inscription ANNO DOM.1664. T G. Stepped brick entablature with 3 ball finials and broken pediment. The central bay formerly also contained 2 blocked round-arched windows to the left and a blocked archway to the right. Entrance now flanked by 2 tall and narrow sashes with glazing bars. Modern door. One mullion window survives with sashes inserted, in the ground floor right bay. Otherwise C19 or C20 sashes with glazing bars to front. Shoulder-arched opening to gable end with modern casement inserted. Stepped and dentilled 1st floor band upon which rest pilasters flanking the upper windows, paired to side wings. In the entrance bay the central sash window is flanked by a pilaster and stepped blind oval panel to each side. A further pilaster to the return walls of the side wings. Interior completely modernised.

Booth, J.A., Country House Architecture in Yorkshire c.1630-c.1690. M.PHil. Thesis, 1972, p26

Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding 1966, p261-2.

Listing NGR: SE4364466397