Burton Agnes Hall Elizabethan manor house Yorkshire England Sir Henry Griffith Robert Smythson listed building
Burton Agnes Hall is an Elizabethan manor house in the village of Burton Agnes, near Driffield in Yorkshire. It was built by Sir Henry Griffith in 1601–10 to designs attributed to Robert Smythson. There is an older Norman Manor House, originally built in 1173 on an adjacent site; both buildings are now Grade I listed buildings. The Hall contains a number of fine 17th century plaster ceilings and chimneypieces. The ceiling of the Long Gallery was restored in two stages by Francis Johnson between 1951 and 1974. This house was planned by Robert Smythson. The plan is basically a square block with bay windows and a small internal courtyard. All of the display has been concentrated on the facade. This includes many windows and many shaped projecting bays, two square in the center, two semicircular at the sides, and two five-sided around the corners. The variety in the skyline is created by gables and level parapets. The main facade is built a story higher than the rest of the house in order to contain a long gallery running the full length of the second floor. However, this makes the side facades asymmetric because it would be higher at one end than the other. This building makes the main facade known, seeing that all the other facades are not as extravagant. The two square projecting bays in the center of the front contain the porch and the bay window at the screens end of the hall. The center two square projecting bays contain the porch and the bay window. This was a traditional arrangement from a frontal view, exactly the same size or treatment, with the doorway to the porch placed where it does not show, not in the front but in the side of its projection; in this way symmetry is preserved. The main rooms vary in size due to the recessions of the bay windows but the main focus of the house is the Long Gallery, which runs the length of the main front and covered by a wagon-roofed and richly plastered ceiling.
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