Weston Hall, North Yorkshire
Tudor and Georgian country house in Weston, North Yorkshire
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Weston Hall is a country house and Grade I listed building in Weston, North Yorkshire, England.[1]
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Weston Hall East front
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History
The house has been in the Vavasour (Dawson after 1833) family since the 14th century.[2] It may contain a medieval core, with a "Weston Hall" being mentioned in 1378.[3] However, it was largely rebuilt during the reign of Elizabeth I, of which period it retains most external features.[3]
There is also a notable Tudor or Jacobean banqueting house, called the Banqueting Hall, built for Sir Mager Vavasour, which is Grade I listed.[4] The Hall and Banqueting Hall were formerly Grade II* listed,[3] but were upgraded.[1][4]
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.[1][5]
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.[4][5]
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.[6][5]
In film
The building was featured in the 1970 film Wuthering Heights, with the hall being used for Lintons' manor.[7]
