Crakehall Hall is a historic building in Crakehall, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The building was constructed in the early 18th century. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "looking competent and sensible".[1] Jean Burdon, who later ran a scheme for disabled riders, was born in the hall in 1924.[2] The house was grade II* listed in 1966, along with its garden walls.[3] It was restored in the 2020s.[4]
The house is built of stone on a plinth, with chamfered quoins, a sill band, a moulded eaves band, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are three storeys, a symmetrical front of seven bays, and a three-storey rear wing. Three steps lead up to a central Doric porch with two pairs of columns on plinths, a fluted frieze, a cornice and blocking course, and a doorway with a fanlight. The windows are sashes with moulded architraves and keystones. On each side of the house is a brick quadrant wall with stone coping, ramped up at the end to stone piers with domed caps. In the centre of each wall is a doorway with a rusticated architrave and a double keystone. From the right-hand pier runs a high coped stone wall.[1][3]
Inside the house is an entrance hall with a dado rail, and early doors to the rooms on each side. There is a large staircase with an open well, lit by a Venetian window with Ionic columns. The right-hand front room has early decoration include its overmantel, panelling, dado rail and cornice.[3]
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edit- ^ a b Grenville, Jane; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2023) [1966]. Yorkshire: The North Riding. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-25903-2.
- ^ "Jean Burdon, countrywoman - obituary". The Telegraph. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Crakehall Hall and garden walls (1150922)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Visit to Crakehall Hall, a beautifully-restored Georgian country house". York Georgian Society. Retrieved 29 June 2024.