Markington Hall

{{Short description|Listed building in North Yorkshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox building | name = Markington Hall | image = | image_alt = | image_size = | caption = | mapframe = yes | address = Markington, North Yorkshire, England | coordinates =  | completion_date = 17th century | renovation_date = 18th and 20th centuries (altered) | floor_count = 2 / 3 | designations = {{Designation list | embed = yes | designation1 = Grade II Listed Building | designation1_offname = Markington Hall | designation1_date = 23 April 1952 | designation1_number = {{NHLE|num=1190266|short=y|postscript=none}} }} }}

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

The house was built in the 17th century, and altered in the 18th century.<ref name="nhlehouse">{{NHLE |num=1190266 |desc=Markington Hall |access-date=18 May 2025}}</ref> It replaced an earlier property, from which late 15th-century outbuildings survive, part of which has served as a chapel in the past.<ref name="nhleoutbuildings">{{NHLE |num=1149829 |desc=Barn approximately 30 metres east of Markington Hall |access-date= 19 May 2025}}</ref> In the 1920s and 1930s, the house was extended to the rear, and the interior was restored and altered.<ref name="nhlehouse" /> William Wilberforce owned the house, letting it out to tenants, and it has remained in his family since; in the 21st century using the grounds and outbuildings for holiday lets.<ref>{{cite news |last=Scott |first=Catherine |title=Markington Hall: 'I didn't feel worthy to hold the name William Wilberforce but you've got to be yourself' says descendant |url=https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/homes-and-gardens/markington-hall-i-didnt-feel-worthy-to-hold-the-name-william-wilberforce-but-youve-got-to-be-yourself-says-descendant-5119178 |access-date=20 May 2025 |work=Yorkshire Post |date=6 May 2025}}</ref> It has been Grade II listed since 1952,<ref name="nhlehouse" /> and the outbuildings are separately Grade II listed.<ref name="nhleoutbuildings" />

The house is built of gritstone and limestone, with moulded floor and eaves bands, and a stone slate roof. It has a two-storey three-bay hall range, and three-storey cross-wings with coped gables and shaped kneelers. In the centre is a doorway in an architrave, flanked by mullioned windows, and on the upper floor are sash windows. Elsewhere, most of the windows are mullioned.<ref name="nhlehouse" /><ref name="pevsner">{{cite book |last1=Leach |first1=Peter |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author2-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2009 |location=New Haven and London |isbn=978-0-300-12665-5}}</ref>

The barn and the outbuildings are built of sandstone, limestone and cobble, and have pantile roofs, that of the barn with eaves courses of stone slate. The barn has a timber framed core, five bays and side aisles. On the front are quoins, a large doorway, and blocked slit vents. The chapel range projects at right angles on the left, and contains doorways and paired pointed windows.<ref name="pevsner" /><ref name="nhleoutbuildings" />

Low Mill lies in the grounds of the hall.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1149831 |desc=Low Mill approximately 60 metres north of Markington Hall |access-date= 20 May 2025}}</ref>

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Category:Grade II listed buildings in North Yorkshire Category:Houses in North Yorkshire Category:Markington