Carr Head Hall

Last updated July 18, 2024

Carr Head Hall is a historic house in Cowling, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The house was probably built in the 1750s for Richard Wainman. It was enlarged later in the century with the addition of a hall and a new staircase, and was refurbished in 1851, from which time the decoration of the ground floor rooms other than the hall survives. The building was slightly altered in the early 20th century. It was Grade II* listed in 1954.^[1] During the 2010s, the building was restored by its owner, who ran a business making paintbrushes and running painting classes from the hall.^[2]

The house in built of stone on a plinth, with rusticated quoins, a floor band, a cornice, and a hipped slate roof. There are two storeys, and the south front has five bays. In the centre is a doorway with Doric pilasters, rosettes and triglyphs, and a pediment The east front has five bays, the middle three bays canted out, and the north front contains a Doric porch, distyle in antis. The windows are sashes in architraves. Inside, the three first floor rooms on the south front all retain their decoration from the 1750s, and the ceiling of the central lobby is also early.^[1]^[3]

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1 2 Historic England. "Carr Head Hall (1157455)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 June 2024.
↑ Tate, Lesley (16 October 2020). "Owner of globally successful art business loses bid to build workshop in grounds of her Cowling mansion". Keighley News. Retrieved 27 June 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.

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[nhle-1] 1 2 Historic England. "Carr Head Hall (1157455)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 27 June 2024.

[2] Tate, Lesley (16 October 2020). "Owner of globally successful art business loses bid to build workshop in grounds of her Cowling mansion". Keighley News. Retrieved 27 June 2024.

[3] 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.

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