Rillington Manor
Manor house in Rillington, North Yorkshire, England
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Rillington Manor is a historic building in Rillington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The house was built in 1913, for Wilfred Henry Hudleston. It was designed by Sidney Kitson, in the neo-Georgian style, and is accessed by a tree-lined driveway. The house was grade II listed in 1986.[1][2]
The country house in built of red brick with a sill band, a mutule cornice, overhanging sprocketed eaves, and hipped pantile roofs. It has two storeys with attics and five bays, the outer bays on the front projecting and with quoins, and a single-storey range on the left. The centre range has a full-height round-arched arcade, a central doorway with pilaster jambs, and an open pediment with a cartouche and a motto in the tympanum. The windows are sashes under varying arches, and there are dormers in the attics with volutes between the sashes. The garden front has full-height canted bay windows in the outer bays, and a single-storey glazed loggia with Doric columns. Inside, the original plasterwork and wood panelling survives, along with the original doors and staircase, which is in the style of 1700.[2][3]
The stable block is also grade II listed, and is also built of red brick, with rusticated quoins, an impost band, bracketed eaves and a hipped pantile roof. It has a single storey, and a flat arch in the centre flanked by three-bay blind arcades, each bay containing a lunette. Above, are two flat dormers, the one on the left between volutes.[4]