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Slide 12. Quoting again from 'Shirley' . . . . . .. She continues - 'And I cannot but secretly applaud the benevolent barbarian who had painted another and larger apartment - the Drawing Room to wit, formerly also an oak room - of a delicately pinky…

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Farmhouse, Oxenhope, Interior, Scarf joint, Fireplace

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Grade II



House, early C17 hall-and-cross-wing in large dressed stone with added 5-bay wing to south, early C19 in dressed stone the face punched with margin. 4 main linear divisions. Gable of C19 wing has plinth, eaves band and coped gable with…

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Grade II

House, 2nd half C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. Copings with kneelers and diamond shaped finials to gables and porch. 2 storeys. 2 cells. All are double chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds with straight returns to…

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Slide 13: A door out of the Saloon leads into the Dining Room. The walls are wainscoted in oak formed into large panels. At the end of the room is an arched recess which forms an effective feature. The mantelpiece is a good example of work of the…

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Slide 14: A view of the mantelpiece showing it more in detail.

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Slide 15: The interior of this fine old Mansion is most interesting, bearing come similarity to Haddon Hall. In the room known as "Lady Betty Hasting's Room" is a fine panelled oaken mantelpiece, bearing the date 1588, and the initials W.W, and E.W.,…

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Slide 11 - Inside more than one of the bedchambers the Jacobean character of the architecture is fully preserved.

This room, no doubt, was originally an upstairs parlour and has oak wainscoting to the walls with long fluted panels as a frieze.

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Slide 6: In another bedroom inside the Hall is a fine white marble matelpiece, beautifully carved and of pleasing design. Note the two candle holders on top of the mantelpiece, carved out of the solid marble.

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Slide 7 - Entering by the porch we are conducted inside the house, and shown the Library, a spacious and well-furnished apartment.

The walls are panelled throughout in oak, and the ceiling to the room is decorated with a geometrical design in…

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Slide 9 - The finishing touch is given to this fine apartment by the unrivalled display of painted glass in the here great windows. The south window is the richest and best preserved, as every light is painted glass, and in it we find a clue to its…

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Slide 8 - The three-storied Mantelpiece reaches to the ceiling. It contains the heraldic achievements of the Fairfax shield and crest, also the arms of Queen Elizabeth are high aloft over it. The frieze is decorated with the arms of the gentry of the…

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Slide 7 - But the great feature of the Tudor building at Gilling is the Great Chamber or present Dining room, which was made by Sir William Fairfax during Elizabeth's reign. Probably there is nothing more complete in original design and workmanship…

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Grade II

House, early C17. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 2-room plan with added C19 cell. South front has former 3-light chamfered windows to parlour. Former 8-light mullioned and transomed window to eaves level to former open…

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Grade II
House (unoccupied), early C17 stone encasing of earlier timber-framed building, large early C18 porch and contemporary added cell to east end of house. Large dressed stone, thin coursed rubble to additions, stone slate roof.

Three-room…

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Slide 15 - Passing through the archway at the end of the Hall, we now enter what is called the Oak Drawing Room.

Over the fireplace is a very strange carving, 'The Dance of Death', carved out of one solid piece of oak about 8 feet by 5 feet, the…

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Slide 12 - The Chimney Piece of the Hall was removed by Sir Griffiths Boynton from Barmston Manor House (a former seat of the Boyntons) and brought by him to Burton Agnes, some time about the year 1765.
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