Whitwell Hall
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Whitwell Hall is a historic building in Whitwell-on-the-Hill, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The country house was built in 1835, for Joseph Haigh. It was designed by James Pigott Pritchett and Charles Watson, in the Tudor architecture|Tudor style]], with construction costing £30,000. The stable block was built at a similar time, but incorporates a chapel, which may contain remnants of a 15th century building.[1][2][3] The house and stables were later converted into a hotel,[4] then back into housing. The house and stable block are separately grade II listed.[2][5]
The house is built of limestone, with a floor band, a hipped Westmorland slate roof, and octagonal corner turrets. It has two storeys and attics, and five bays divided by pilaster buttresses. In the centre is a canted bay window with an embattled parapet, and the outer bays have four-light windows with four-centred arched heads. The upper floor contains two- or three-light straight-headed windows, and above is an embattled parapet on decorative corbels, and a central gable with a finial, containing a two-light window. On the right return is a porte-cochère with Tudor arches and an openwork parapet.[2][6]
The stable block is built of sandstone and has a Westmorland slate roof with gable coping. It has a U-shaped plan, with the chapel in the centre of the main range. It has two storeys and single-storey extensions to the wings. The main range has seven bays, the middle range projecting slightly, and containing a doorway with a Tudor arch, a divided fanlight and a hood mould. The outer bays are arcaded, and have recesses containing casement windows with triangular fanlights. On the roof is an octagonal bell turret with a cupola, and a sundial flanked by pinnacles.[5][6]