More information : [NY 701175] Ormside Hall [NR] (1)
ORMSIDE HALL, 70 yards S.E. of the church, is of two and three storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered.
The house belonged to the family of Barton till late in the 16th
century, when it passed to Sir Christopher Pickering and from him to the Hilton family. The building was probably of the usual mediaeval form with a hall-block and cross-wings at the N.E. and S.W. ends. The existing S.W. wing dates from late in the 14th or early in the 15th century, but the main or hall-block appears to have been rebuilt in the 17th century and the other cross-wing no longer exists. The S.W. wing is of three storeys; at the S.E. end the middle storey has an original window of two trefoiled lights in a
square head with a moulded label; the label of a similar window remains in the floor below and in the top floor is a 15th-century window of two cinquefoiled lights; the N.W. end has two 17th-century windows and on the top floor a 15th or early 16th-century window of two lights with arched heads under a square moulded label. On the S.W. side are two windows with elliptical heads probably of the 17th century; one of these has a square moulded label. Inside the wing, there was formerly a circular staircase in the E. angle, now cut through to form an entrance and opening
into a small lobby with 17th-century round-headed doorways, in the thickness of the N.E. wall. The first floor has a 17th-century frieze of modelled plaster, with scroll-ornament. The main block has a late 17th or early 18th-century doorway with a moulded architrave and key-block. The out building, N.E. of the house incorporates two 17th-century windows. The entrance to the courtyard is flanked by two late 17th or early 18th-century rusticated piers with moulded cappings and ball-terminals.
Condition - Fairly good. (2)
The original SW wing is a fair, but not outstanding example of its period. See photographs. (3)
Listed with plan and illustration. (4) |