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Weston Hall, North Yorkshire

Weston Hall is a country house and Grade I listed building in Weston, North Yorkshire, England.

History

The house has been in the Vavasour (Dawson after 1833) family since the 14th century. It may contain a medieval core, with a "Weston Hall" being mentioned in 1378. However, it was largely rebuilt during the reign of Elizabeth I, of which period it retains most external features.

There is also a notable Tudor or Jacobean banqueting house, called the Banqueting Hall, built for Sir Mager Vavasour, which is Grade I listed. The Hall and Banqueting Hall were formerly Grade II* listed, but were upgraded.

Architecture

House

The house is built of gritstone with quoins and a roof of gritstone slabs. There is a main block of two storeys and a basement and four bays, to the south is a projecting range with two storeys and a basement, and fronts of three and four bays, and to the north is a bay with three storeys and a basement. On the garden front, the main range has a staircase of opposing stairs leading to a pair of round-arched doorways with a cornice on consoles, under which are two round-arched basement windows. The other windows are mullioned with cornices, and above is a deep eaves cornice and a blocking course. The left range contains sash windows on the ground floor, above which is a mullioned and a mullioned and transomed window, and a balustrade. The right bay contains three tiers of canted mullioned and transomed bay windows with hood moulds, above which is a blind window, a gabled parapet and tall crocketed pinnacles.

Banqueting House

The Banqueting House is built of gritstone on a plinth, with quoins and a stone slate roof. It consists of a three-storey one-bay tower with a projecting rear stair turret surmounted by a gazebo. On the south front is a doorway with a triangular head and a cornice. The upper floors each contains a five-light mullioned and transomed bay window with cornices, the upper windows flanked by roundels. On the left return external steps lead to a doorway on the stair turret, to the right are two recesses containing gadrooned urns, and above are mullioned and transomed windows. All the windows are recessed and have moulded surrounds.

Barn

South of the hall is a grade II* listed barn, built in or before the 16th century. It has a timber framed core, it was encased in gritstone in the 17th century, and later converted into stables and a coach house. It has quoins and a stone slate roof with shaped kneelers and gable copings, and there are five bays and double aisles. The openings include doorways, windows, some with mullions, a pitching door and vents.

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