Eshton Hall is a historic building in Eshton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The country house was constructed between 1825 and 1827, for Mathew Wilson, replacing a Georgian house in the Palladian style. It was designed by George Webster, and was one of the earliest works in the Elizabethan revival style.[1] Webster altered and extended the building between 1835 and 1839, and the house then remained largely unchanged, the only substantial alterations being to the service wing. The house had 30 acres (12 ha) of pleasure grounds, on both sides of Eshton Beck.[2]
Eston Hall was inherited by Frances Mary Richardson Currer who held a large library.[3] The house was grade II* listed in 1954.[1] The Wilson family sold the hall in 1960, and it became a nursing home.[2] In 2005, it was converted into 18 apartments, with work including several new staircases, and a new roof covering.[4]
The hall is built of stone with slate roofs. The main block has two storeys and fronts of five bays, the outer bays on the main front projecting, with a continuous coped parapet. On the front is a two-storey porch with coupled Doric antae and ornamental cresting. The windows are mullioned and transomed and contain horizontally-sliding sashes. To the right of the main block is an octagonal turret, with three stages, a scalloped crest, an ogee lead cupola, and a dated and initialled weathervane. Further to the right is a service wing with two storeys and nine bays, containing a gabled gatehouse with an oriel window and a gabled bellcote. Inside, there is a central staircase under a lantern, while the dining room, library, and drawing room all have marble fireplaces.[1][5]
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- ^ a b c Historic England. "Eshton Hall (1167726)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
- ^ a b "Eshton Hall". Parks & Gardens. Hestercombe Gardens Trust. 31 December 1713. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
- ^ "Wilson Family" (PDF). North Building Preservation Trust. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
- ^ "Eshton Hall". Crosby Granger Architects. Retrieved 30 August 2024.
- ^ Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.