Blubberhouses Hall, Now Venture House

BLUBBERHOUSES HALL LANE SE 15 NE (north side) 2/17 Blubberhouses Hall, now Venture House GV II

House. Mid C19 for Lady Frankland, possibly by E B Lamb. Coursed squared gritstone, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, with 2-storey gabled porch bay 3 and corbelled first-floor gable bay 1. In Elizabethan style. Plinth. South front has chamfered doorcase to porch and central 4- light chamfered mullion window , both below relieving arches, and bay window to left of 3-lights flanked by lower single lights, all under stone roof. Above two 2-light chamfered mullion windows and similar 3-light window to left, all but central window below relieving arches. Projecting quoined stack to right of porch with 3 tall flues, single tall stack to left of porch and tall gable stack to left. Right return has ground-floor bay window with 4-light chamfered mullion window, similar 3-light window over and further 2-light window in gable. The hall was used as a shooting box by Lord Walsingham, the grandson of Lady Frankland who was also the patron of St Andrews Church (qv). E Bogg, Higher Wharfedale, 1904, p 45.

Listing NGR: SE1666355418