Arncliffe Hall

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Arncliffe Hall is a historic building in Ingleby Arncliffe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The first Arncliffe Hall was constructed in the late 16th century for William Mauleverer, facing north. From 1753 to 1754, a new hall was constructed, on the same site but facing south. It was designed by John Carr, for Thomas Mauleverer.{{cite book |last1=Page |first1=William |title=A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2 |date=1923 |publisher=Victoria County History |location=London |url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp240-243 |access-date=10 February 2025}} Carr also designed a stable block to the southeast, which was altered in 1905.{{NHLE |num= 1151376|desc=Stable block to south-east of Arncliffe Hall, including Nos.1-5 consecutive, Ingleby Arncliffe|access-date= 2 February 2025}} The hall was grade I listed in 1952,{{NHLE |num= 1151375|desc= Arncliffe Hall, and wall attached to south-east, Ingleby Arncliffe|access-date= 2 February 2025}} while the stables were grade II* listed in 1966, at the same time as the forecourt and garden walls.{{NHLE |num= 1314921|desc= Forecourt and garden walls to north-west of Arncliffe Hall, Ingleby Arncliffe|access-date= 2 February 2025}}

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The country house is built of sandstone, with a hipped Welsh slate roof, three storeys and a basement. The west front has five bays, alternating quoins, floor and sill bands, and stepped eaves. In the centre, balustraded steps lead to a doorway with an architrave, a fanlight a cornice and a pediment. The windows are sashes under flat arches with voussoirs, those in the ground floor with hood moulds. To the left are the remains of a later single-storey wing. In the right return is a Diocletian window and a Venetian window. The garden front has a rusticated basement, and a central perron leading to a doorway with a Roman Doric doorcase, engaged columns and a pediment. On the right is a conservatory, and a wall with a pedimented gateway. Inside, much of the decoration of the saloon, dining room and library survives, as does the original staircase.{{cite book| last1 =Grenville| first1 =Jane| last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title =Yorkshire: The North Riding| publisher =Yale University Press | year =2023 | orig-year=1966 |location =New Haven and London | isbn =978-0-300-25903-2 }}

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The stable block is built of sandstone with pantile roofs, and consists of four ranges round a rectangular courtyard. The main front has a modillion eaves cornice, an impost band, two storeys and seven bays. The middle three bays contain a carriage arch flanked by round-arched windows. The bays flanking these are pedimented, and contain round-arched recesses and doorways with fanlights. Short walls link the range to single-storey two-bay pavilions.

The garden walls are also built of sandstone, and have flat copings. The wall running northeast has a cornice and ball finials, it contains a rusticated round-arched gateway, and an entrance with rusticated gate piers. The wall running northwest contains three gateways with keystones.