Bossall Hall

{{Short description|House in Bossall, North Yorkshire, England}}

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

A quadrangular castle was constructed in Bossall by Paulinus de Bossall in the 14th century, surrounded by a moat. It was demolished in the early 17th century by Robert Belt, who constructed a new hall within the moat, probably reusing building materials from the castle. It was partly rebuilt in the 18th century, and its external appearance now dates to this period;{{cite book |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/pp91-98#h3-s3 |access-date=10 May 2024}}{{NHLE |desc=Bossall Hall: a quadrangular castle |num=1008016 |access-date=12 May 2024}} Historic England describes it as "not outstanding".{{cite web |title=Bossall Hall |url=https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=59750&resourceID=19191 |website=Heritage Gateway |publisher=Historic England |access-date=12 May 2024}} The building was Grade II listed in 1953,{{NHLE |desc=Bossall Hall |num=1149644 |access-date=12 May 2024}} and the site, including the largely-intact moat, was made a scheduled monument in 1993. It was put up for sale in 2020, with a guide price of more than £2 million.{{cite news |last1=Churchill |first1=Penny |title=A grand, 10,000sq ft hall in Yorkshire with moat, and a secret garden |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/property/a-grand-10000sq-ft-hall-in-yorkshire-with-moat-and-a-secret-garden-219502 |access-date=12 May 2024 |work=Country Life |date=22 October 2020}}

The house is built of brick, with an M-shaped tile roof. There are two storeys and attics, a double-depth plan, eight bays, and rear service wings. The doorway has a divided fanlight, the windows are sashes with flat brick arches, and in the attics are five dormers with casements. There are two projecting chimney stacks flanked by small 17th-century casement windows with decorative brick pediments. There are drainpipe heads dated 1726 and 1798. Inside, there is an 18th-century wooden staircase, and wooden panelling in the central room, of similar date.{{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 }}