More information : (SK 97819962) Redbourne Hall (NAT) (1)
REDBOURNE HALL. Now straggling and incoherent, dwindling out at
the tail end with castellated farm buildings. Accounts show that
John Carr was employed for improvements in 1773. The W front has five
bays of tall windows on the ground floor and lower ones above.
At the S end is a three-window bow. In 1778 a carver and gilder calledHudson and a joiner called Bunning were paid for work. In the
outbuildings are two reliefs of Harvest and Autumn, one dated 1734.
What may be Carr's design is the GATEWAY, building in 1776,
tripartite, with castellations and arrow slits. (2)
22/75 Redbourne Hall, including Redbourne House and
Flats 1-3 inclusive (formerly listed as
Redbourne Hall)
19.10.51
GV II*
Country house, now divided into flats. Early C18 for the Carter
Estate, with mid - late C18 alterations, perhaps by John Carr of York,for Rev Robert Carter Thelwall; later C18 - early C19 alterations for
Lord William Beauclerk, and later C19 alterations for Dukes St Albans.West wing (Redbourne Hall) forming principal front, of C18 origins,
rebuilt c1820-30, with later C19 stairhall wing to south and early C20courtyard entrance. Early C18 east range (Redbourne House and Flats
1-2), raised in later C18 - early C19, has kitchen wing of c1820-30 toright (Flat 3), with carriage-house of 1854 adjoining to rear, now
partly incorporated in house. West wing: squared limestone with red
brick dressings, brick to bow window; east range of red brick in
Flemish bond; slate roofs throughout. Carriage-house of grey brick
with slate roof to central section and flagstone roofs to lower wings.House approximately L-shaped on plan: 3-room west wing with entrance
and stairhall to south, main entrance to east; double-depth 3-room
east range with 2-room former kitchen wing to right and T-shaped
carriage-house and stables to rear. West front: 2-storey 5-bay
symmetrical section to left with single-bay full-height bow window andlower 2-storey 2-bay wing to right. Ashlar plinth to left, limestone
plinth to right; brick quoins. Entrance to third bay has French windowwith glazing bars and large 6-pane overlight, flanked by full-length
slightly-recessed unequal 15-pane sashes in rubbed-brick surrounds
with sills and flat arches; first floor 12-pane sashes in similar
surrounds. Bow window, with C18 lower section, has 3 unequal 15-pane
sashes in wooden architraves with sills and blind boxes with scrolled
brackets beneath stucco flat arches; similar first-floor sashes, that
to centre with stucco flat arch, those to either side with flat
arches. Wing to right: 12-pane sash in architrave with sill and blind
box beneath ashlar lintel, blind window panel to right with sill and
lintel; similar first-floor sashes. Moulded wooden eaves cornice.
Hipped roof to main range with end and axial stacks; roof hipped to
lower right section. Right return: recessed glazed door in brick
surround flanked by 12-pane sashes in architrave; 2 similar
first-floor windows. Courtyard entrance front to west wing: projectingground-floor section flanking tall projecting porch; projecting
ground-floor bowed section to right with domed roof. Entrance has
2-fold fielded-panel door and fanlight in reveal with rusticated brickjambs and keyed ashlar arch with raised impost bands beneath moulded
pediment, the impost bands terminating in carved ashlar brackets
supporting porch sides. Single 12-pane sashes to each side; similar
sash to bowed section. East range: 3 storeys, 7 bays, with 2-storey
4-bay wing to right. Left section: stucco plinth; entrance to third
bay has 6-panel door and 5-pane overlight in wooden architrave beneathflat brick arch flanked by 12-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves
with sills and flat brick arches; C20 12-pane casement in altered
opening to sixth bay (Flat No 2). C20 2-course brick first-floor band,perhaps replacement. Similar first-floor sashes, second-floor brick
band. Second floor: two 16-pane sashes in flush wooden architraves andone C20 casement beneath flat arches. Hipped roof, 2 axial stacks, endstack to left. Wing to right: first bay slightly-recessed with
6-panelled door beneath geometric overlight and segmental arch. C20
entrance to second bay in original window opening beneath 6-pane
casement with rubbed brick flat arch; unequal 15-pane sashes in
reveals with sills and similar arches to right. First floor:
round-headed window with glazing bars to first bay, unequal 9-pane
sashes in reveals with sills and flat arches. Stepped eaves. Axial
stack. Carriage-house: central 2-storey square-plan section flanked by3 single-storey flat-roofed sections, that to south, adjoining house,
raised to 2 storeys c1980; projecting entrance to east, single-storey
passage and stables to rear. Deep plinth; carriage entrance beneath
timber lintel, stepped and corbelled brick eaves, coped parapet;
2-storey section has 2-course brick first-floor band, large lunette
with ashlar sill and glazing bars, stepped eaves, bracketed wooden
cornice and hipped roof surmounted by rectangular lantern with glazingbars, pyramidal roof and weathervane. Casements to wings with glazing
bars, ashlar sills and cambered arches. Similar lunette to rear,
blocked lunette to south. Interior. West wing. c1820-30 main rooms en
suite: 2 ground-floor left rooms have similar moulded cornices and
ornate gilded plasterwork ceilings (partly obscured by inserted C20
ceiling to kitchen section in left room); wide fielded-panel
elliptically-arched 2-fold connecting door with panelled pilasters,
carved rosettes and scrolls; fitted pine cupboard to left room with
similar surround; plain pilasterd ashlar chimneypieces. Drawing room
to right has similar chimneypiece in grey marble, plasterwork cofferedhalf-domed alcove to rear, fluted dado rail, coved cornice with gildedleaf-and dart and grapevine friezes, foliate ceiling rose with similarvine motif. Panelled window shutters and veneered doors in
architraves. Rear stairhall has good open-well rosewood staircase withbracketed string, ramped and wreathed handrail, column newels and
balusters; wide reeded plaster cornice. Late C19 - early C20 main oak
staircase with turned balusters. East wing, section to left: ground
floor left (Redbourne House) has early C18 oak fielded-panelling,
panelled overmantle flanked by pilasters with carved capitals and
entablature, carved cornice, fielded-panel doors; 6 first-floor rooms
(4 to front and 2 to rear) with painted fielded-panelling, moulded
cornices, fielded-panel doors and shutters: that to first floor left
with later C18 moulded plaster cornice and arched alcoves flanking
marble chimneypiece; plain ashlar chimneypieces to other main rooms.
Coved cornice and panelled plasterwork ceiling to first-floor passage.Early C18 closed-string staircase to first floor right (Flat No 2)
with column-on-vase balusters; tunnel-vaulted entrance passage to left(Flat No 1) with fielded-panel screen and early C19 staircase with
ramped and wreathed handrail, plain balusters and column newel.
c1820-30 section to Flat No 2 has closed-string staircase with ramped
handrail, column balusters and newels; elliptically-arched doors with
beaded-panel reveals. Accounts show that mid - late C18 building work
for Rev Robert Carter Thelwall included a bow window of 1770 (probablythat shown on Nattes' drawing of the west wing before refronting).
Plans submitted by John Carr of York in 1773 and 1784 may have
included house alterations as well as designs for a screen wall and
the gateway (qv). A date for the completion of the major C19
rebuilding is provided by payments made for furnishings to John Lovittof Hull and for chimney pieces to John Earle in 1827-8. Drawing
("Redbourne House") by C Nattes, 1795, Banks Collection, Lincoln City
Library; N Pevsner and J Harris. York Georgian Society, The Works in
Architecture of John Carr, 1973, p28; photographs in NMR. (3)
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