Easby Hall and Numbers 1 and 2 Easby Court Easby, England

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EASBY EASBY NZ 10 SE

4/47 Easby Hall and Nos 1 and 2, Easby Court 4.2.69 (formerly listed as Easby House)

GV II*

Marked on old editions of Ordnance Survey Maps as Easby Hall, and on newer editions as Easby House. Country house, with one wing now divided into 2 flats. c1730, for Rev Wm Smith, with later alterations and additions for Leonard Jaques. Coursed rubble and brick, with ashlar dressings, lead and Westmorland slate roofs. 3-storey 5-bay central block, with 2-storey 2-bay wings. North-east front; coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Central block: chamfered rusticated quoins. Central 6-panel door below segmental fanlight within flat-roofed porch with Roman Doric columns and engaged pilasters, and blocking course above. On ground floor on either side, c1900 3-light sash windows in made-up C18 architraves with tripartite keystones. First floor: sash windows in architraves with tripartite keystones. Second floor: half-size 6-pane sash windows in architraves with tripartite keystones. Cornice. Parapet. Wings set back (north wing now nos 1 and 2 Easby Court). Chamfered rusticated quoins to outer sides. 2 bays of sash windows in architraves with tripartite keystones. Cornices of less elaborate section than main house. Ashlar parapets. Brick end stacks. South-west (garden) front: brick with ashlar dressings. Ashlar plinth and chamfered rusticated quoins. Central part-glazed door within c1900 ashlar porch of Tuscan antae engaged on side walls supporting flat roof with blocking course above. Sash windows in architraves with tripartite keystones, half-size windows on second floor. Cornice. Ashlar parapet. Ashlar end stacks, brick stack between second and third bays. Flat rolled lead roof. Wings project forward. Right (south) wing: brick. Ashlar plinth and chamfered rusticated quoins. On each floor, a 3-light sash window with architraves and keystone over central light, that on ground floor inscribed "1900 L J". Cornice. Ashlar parapet. Left (north) wing: late C18. Brick. Ashlar chamfered rusticated quoins. On ground floor: two 9-pane sash windows in architraves with keystones, and Venetian window on first floor. Westmorland slate roof, hipped to right. North wing continues into former kitchen courtyard range, now converted into cottages, of rubble with ashlar door surround and the surround of a 2-light mullion window on the first floor. Range continues further to north as former stable courtyard, now also converted into cottages. In 1729 the manor of Easby was sold to Rev W Smith rector of Melsonby, who soon afterwards built the present mansion. H Speight, Romantic Richmondshire (1897), p112.

Listing NGR: NZ1871200359