Hackness is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 27 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Hackness and the surrounding countryside. The most important buildings in the parish are a church and the country house, Hackness Hall, both of which are listed at Grade I. Many of the listed buildings are associated with the hall, in its gardens and grounds. The other listed buildings include houses, cottages and associated structures, farmhouses and farm buildings, a cornmill, two bridges, a pinfold, an orangery, and a telephone kiosk.
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The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, and was restored in about 1870. It is built in sandstone with a slate roof, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a north chapel and vestry, and a west steeple. The steeple has a tower with three stages, a chamferedplinth, a stair turret at the southwest, angle buttresses, chamfered bands, lancet windows, paired bell openings with pointed heads under round arches and hood moulds, an embattledparapet, and a recessed octagonal spire.[2][3]
The cottage is in stone, with quoins, and a pantile roof with a brick ridge, and stone copedgables and kneelers. There is a single storey and attics, and a recessed extension on the left. Most of the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes, in the extension is a casement window, and in the attic are gabled dormers with decorative bargeboards. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace, and in the roof is a central upper cruck truss.[4]
The cornmill and attached outbuildings are in sandstone with pantile roofs. The mill has a stone plinth, two storeys and three bays, to the left is a cart shed with one storey and a loft, and two bays, and further to the left are single-storey buildings. In the centre of the mill is a doorway, above which is a lifting door, the outer bays contain fixed lights, and the roof has copedgables and shaped kneelers. The mill tailrace is carried away through a vaulted stone culvert passing under the mill buildings.[5]
The dovecote is in sandstone, with floor and eaves bands, and a pyramidal slate roof. There are two storeys and a square plan. On the front is a doorway with a triple keystone, above which is a roundel. In the upper storey of the right return is a lunette.[6]
The house is in sandstone, with a stepped eaves course, and a pantile roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, three bays, flanking lower single-bay wings, and a later rear wing. The windows are horizontally-sliding sashes.[7]
The bridge crosses the Hackness to Suffield Road, and links two parts of the gardens of Hackness Hall. It is in sandstone and cambered, with three arches of voussoirs, consisting of a central segmental arch, and smaller round-headed side arches. The bridge has rectangular piers with imposts and flat coping, surmounted by railings.[8]
The farm buildings are in sandstone with pantile roofs. They consist of a two-storey barn and a cart shed with a granary above, flanked by single-storey ranges of stables, cowhouses and loose boxes, arranged around three sides of walled foldyard, which was later roofed. The cart shed has orange-red piers and arches, the yard has a two-tier hipped roof, and elsewhere the roofs are pitched.[9]
The house is in sandstone, with a stepped eaves course, and a slate roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, three bays and a continuous rear outshut under a catslide roof. The central doorway has a divided fanlight, and the windows are sashes.[10]
The farmhouse is in sandstone, and has a pantile roof with copedgables and plain kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays, and a single-storey outshut at the rear under a catslide roof. In the centre is a doorway with a divided fanlight, and the windows are sashes, most with keystones.[11]
The farmhouse is in sandstone on the front and sides, and in orange-red brick at the rear, and it has an M-shaped pantile roof. There are two storeys, a double depth plan, three bays, and a lean-to on the left. The central doorway has a fanlight, and the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes.[12]
The farmhouse is in sandstone, and has a pantile roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys, two bays, and a single-storey lean-to on the left. The doorway is in the centre, the widows are horizontally-sliding sashes, and all the openings have tripartite lintels.[13]
The pinfold is in sandstone, and has a circular plan. The walls are about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high, they are finished with transversely-laid stones, and on the road side is a slatted gate.[14]
A pair of cottages with an attached smithy to the right, in sandstone, with a pantile roof, copedgables and shaped kneelers. There is a single storey and attics, and five bays. The cottage to the left has horizontally-sliding sash windows with tooled lintels, the right cottage has sash windows with wedge lintels, and the smithy has paired doors, and paired six-pane windows under a continuous timber lintel. In the attic are gabled dormers with scalloped bargeboards.[15]
A country house that was extended in 1810, and partly rebuilt in 1910 by Walter Brierley following a fire. It is in sandstone with slate roofs. The entrance front has two storeys and seven bays, and a lower L-shaped wing to the left. The middle three bays project under a pediment, and in the centre is a pedimented porch with flutedDoric columns, in antis, containing double doors, over which is a decorated panel. Above the doorway is a tripartite sash window with Ionic columns, a frieze with swags, and a segmental pediment. The other windows are sashes in architraves with modillioncornices. On the front is a pulvinated frieze, sill bands, dentilledeaves, a modillion cornice, and a balustradedparapet. The garden front has seven bays, the middle three bays projecting, with four giant fluted Ionic pilasters, and a tympanum containing an escutcheon in high relief. The terrace railings are decorative and in cast iron.[16][17]
The barn is in sandstone on a plinth, with sill and impost bands, and a hippedslate roof. There is a rectangular plan, two storeys and three bays. On the front are double doors under a full-height arch, flanked by round-arched window openings.[16][18]
The barn is sandstone with a hippedslate roof. It has a rectangular plan, a single storey, and three bays. In the centre is a segmental arch flanked by round arches, all springing from piers with imposts, and in the returns are two round arches.[16][19]
The stables, carriage sheds and workshops are in sandstone with slate roofs, and form four ranges round a courtyard. The main range has two storeys on a plinth, and nine arcadedbays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment. In the centre is a carriage arch, flanked by recessed windows with arches of shaped voussoirs, and in the upper floor are sash windows. Above is a mouldedeavescornice, and raking cornices to the pediment that contains an oculus with keystones in the tympanum. In the centre of the hipped roof is a cupola with a weathervane. Associated with other ranges are two pumps, each with a lead plaque containing a family crest.[16][20]
The house is in sandstone, with a modillioneavescornice, and a slate roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays, and flanking lower two-storey one-bay wings. In the centre is a doorway in an architrave with a cornice, and the windows are sashes.[21]
A sawmill, later an outbuilding, consisting of a barn, the remains of the mill, the mill race and the wheel chamber. It is in sandstone with a hippedpantile roof. The barn has two storeys and four bays. To its right is the three-bay wall of the former sawmill, containing three segmental-arched openings of voussoirs. Against the barn is a trough, and a pump with a lead plaque containing a family crest and a date.[22]
The orangery, designed by John Carr, is in sandstone on a plinth at the front, and in orange-red brick with sandstone dressings on the sides and at the rear. The plinth extends to form a terrace, and there are clasping pilasters at the ends, and a mouldedeaves course and cornice. The orangery has a single storey and an arcaded front of five bays, the round-arched openings with moulded hoods on pilaster piers with moulded imposts. The central entrance and the flanking sash windows have round heads. At the rear is a five-bay blind arcade with imposts and keystones.[23]
The gate piers flanking the entrance to the drive are in sandstone, with a square plan, they are on tall plinths, and about 3.25 metres (10.7 ft) high. The piers have alternate long and short quoins forming bands of chamferedrustication. Each pier has a mouldedabacus, a frieze with swags, a moulded cornice, and a flat stepped cap with a carved eagle finial. On the front is the family crest. The gates are in cast iron, and probably date from the 20th century.[24]
The bridge carries Storr Lane over the stream. It is in sandstone, and consists of a single segmental arch between pilasters. The bridge has a band, and a plain parapet with flat coping. At the ends of the parapet are cylindrical piers with shallow domed tops.[25]
The farmhouse and attached cottage are in sandstone, with a stepped eaves course, and a pantile roof with copedgables and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays. On the front is a doorway with a buttress to the left, and the entrance to the cottage is in the right gable wall. The windows are sashes with painted stone sills and plain lintels.[26]
The icehouse has a circular plan, it is partly sunk into the ground, and has a doorway to the north. The exterior is in rusticatedsandstone, the interior is in orange-red brick, and it has a conical roof of stone flags and brick with a square opening at the apex.[27]
An inn, later a private house, in sandstone, with a mouldedeavescornice and paired modillions, and a pantile roof. There are two storeys, a double depth plan, and front of three bays, flanked by single-storey outbuildings. In the centre is a doorway approached by steps, flanked by cast iron railings with urn finials. The doorway has a divided fanlight, and a cornice hood on flutedconsoles. The windows are sashes with keystones.[28]
A country house, later a hotel, in sandstone on a chamferedplinth, with chamfered quoins, overhanging eaves, and hippedslate roofs. There are two storeys, a front range of three bays, and a five-bay extension to the right. In the centre of the main range is a full-height projecting porch with a cornice on decorative brackets, and a doorway with a partly rusticated surround, and a fanlight. The windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with segmental heads, eared surrounds, keystones, and recessed panels below. The upper floor windows have round-arched architraves, square columns with imposts, and keystones.[16][29]
The K6 type telephone kiosk was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[30]
