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• Listed Building (I) 321913: HIPSWELL HALL

Monument Type(s):

• GREAT HALL (15tH CENTURY to 20th Century - 1401 AD to 1927 AD)

Other References/Statuses

Full description

Western range of fortified manor house, now farmhouse. C15 with alterations dated 1596. Manor house of the Fulthorpe family, altered for George Wandesford. Coursed stone, part roughcast, with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with near-central 3-storey tower porch, 2 first-floor windows. Quoins. Embattled parapet. Porch: part-glazed door in chamfered ashlar surround with triangular soffit to lintel. Above, plaque with raised lettering "GW 1596". First floor: 2-light double-chamfered mullion window with vertical iron bars and hoodmould. Second floor: 2-light double- chamfered mullion window with vertical iron bars. Plain parapet. Left return of porch: double-chamfered light vent between ground and first floors; waterspout from parapet. Right return of porch: waterspout from parapet. House, to left of porch: 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with vertical iron bars and hoodmould on ground floor; 4-light double- chamfered mullion and transom window with vertical iron bars and hoodmould on first floor. To right of porch: 2-storey 5-sided bay window with ogee lights in square heads with recessed spandrels and vertical iron bars. First-floor windows cinquefoil-cusped, those on ground floor have had the cusping cut away. Between windows, a traceried panel with a cross moline, the arms of the Fulthorpes. Crenellated parapet. To right of window, waterspout from parapet. Rear: most original openings blocked, including a doorway and windows. On first floor, a window of 2 pointed lights. Two- storey flat-roofed extension, said to be of c.1917, re-using old materials, and with re-set chamfered doorway with triangular soffit to lintel and board door on left return. Right return: 5-light chamfered mullion window with hoodmould on ground floor; 5-light chamfered mullion and transom window with hoodmould on first floor. Interior: armorial shield in plaster ceiling of ground floor bay window. The extensive manor house is shown in Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook (1979), p. 384. VCH i, p. 302. H. Speight, Romantic Richmondshire (1897), p. 118.
Type and date: C15 FORTIFIED MANOR HOUSE. Date: from 1400 to 1499
Type and date: 1596 FORTIFIED MANOR HOUSE. Date: 1596
Type and date: c.1917 FARMHOUSE. Date: from 1907 to 1927
Main material: stone
Main material: roughcast
Main material: ashlar
Covering material: stone (2)




<1> Ordnance Survey, Various, Ordnance Survey Record Card, SE 19 NE 2 (Card Index). SNY1.




<2> Department of the Environment, LIST OF BUILDINGS "Greenbacks" (List of Buildings). SNY1451.

Sources and further reading

<1>	SNY1 - Card Index: Ordnance Survey. Various. Ordnance Survey Record Card. Various authors. SE 19 NE 2.
<2>	SNY1451 - List of Buildings: Department of the Environment. LIST OF BUILDINGS "Greenbacks".

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