Hickleton Hall
Pevsner, who wrote in his Buildings of England, Yorkshire West Riding gives this
account of the architectural details: “Seven bay centre of two and a half storeys.
No columns or pilasters. Three bay pediment with shield flanked by palm branches.
Two projecting one-storey wings of three bays with pediments and low pyramid roofs.
Between the wings the ground floor of the centre was extended a little forward to
give more space to two re-decorated rooms and to create an entrance lobby. Original
work of the entrance hall with its screen of four Tuscan columns towards the staircase,
which has a wrought-iron railing. The large library to the left is decorated in the
finest Adam style. It consists of an oblong apartment connected by a screen of two
Corinthian columns with one square one. On the right side of the entrance hall a
simpler room and then extending into the right wing the ballroom with Victorian decoration.
In the left wing a Chapel. Reredos with fluted Ionic columns and an open segmental
top.” As you can see, Pevsner’s description was written in the twentieth century
long after Godfrey’s first building project and the Halifax’s Victorian changes and
additions.
