{{Short description|Listed building in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2024}} {{Use British English|date=June 2024}} thumb|right|The building, in 2010 '''Crakehall Hall''' is a historic building in Crakehall, a village in North Yorkshire, England.
The building was constructed in the early 18th century. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "looking competent and sensible".<ref name="pevsner">{{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 }}</ref> Jean Burdon, who later ran a scheme for disabled riders, was born in the hall in 1924.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jean Burdon, countrywoman - obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11686510/Jean-Burdon-countrywoman-obituary.html |access-date=29 June 2024 |work=The Telegraph |date=19 June 2015}}</ref> The house was Grade II* listed in 1966, along with its garden walls.<ref name="nhle">{{NHLE |desc=Crakehall Hall and garden walls |num=1150922 |access-date=29 June 2024}}</ref> It was restored in the 2020s.<ref>{{cite web |title=Visit to Crakehall Hall, a beautifully-restored Georgian country house |url=https://www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/visit-to-crakehall-hall-a-beautifully-restored-georgian-country-house-1 |website=York Georgian Society |access-date=29 June 2024}}</ref>
The house is built of stone on a plinth, with chamfered quoins, a sill band, a moulded eaves band, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are three storeys, a symmetrical front of seven bays, and a three-storey rear wing. Three steps lead up to a central Doric porch with two pairs of columns on plinths, a fluted frieze, a cornice and blocking course, and a doorway with a fanlight. The windows are sashes with moulded architraves and keystones. On each side of the house is a brick quadrant wall with stone coping, ramped up at the end to stone piers with domed caps. In the centre of each wall is a doorway with a rusticated architrave and a double keystone. From the right-hand pier runs a high coped stone wall.<ref name="pevsner" /><ref name="nhle" />
Inside the house is an entrance hall with a dado rail, and early doors to the rooms on each side. There is a large staircase with an open well, lit by a Venetian window with Ionic columns. The right-hand front room has early decoration include its overmantel, panelling, dado rail and cornice.<ref name="nhle" />
==See also== *Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district) *Listed buildings in Crakehall
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Category:Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire Category:Country houses in North Yorkshire Category:Crakehall