Maunby - Izeria

Maunby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, about six miles south of Northallerton and on the River Swale. The population is estimated at around 150. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The parish church is St Michael & All Angels. In the churchyard is the grave of Victoria Cross-holder Alan Richard Hill-Walker who lived at Maunby Hall. The hall is still owned by the Hill-Walker family. There is also a Methodist church close to the village green. Village features include the village green, two churches, and the war memorial on the green.

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Newby Wiske Hall

Newby Wiske Hall is a historic building in Newby Wiske, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The country house was built in 1684 for William Reveley. The hall was altered in the 18th century, and passed through various owners, including William Mitford. In 1829, William Rutson purchased the hall, then extended it and made extensive alterations. In 1954, the Home Office purchased the house for £13,000, and converted into a police training centre. In 1977, it became the headquarters of North Yorkshire Police. The building was grade II listed in 1985. In 2017, the building was sold and converted into a children's outdoor activity centre. The house is rendered, with stone dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The main front has two storeys and attics, eleven bays, the outer bays projecting, with a lower two-storey four-bay wing to the right, and later rear additions. The main block has a plinth, a floor band, a frieze, a cornice and blocking course, and a hipped roof. In the centre is a two-storey porch with a round-arched opening, pilasters, an architrave and a keystone, above which is a small balcony. The windows in the lower two floors of the middle nine bays are sashes with architraves, those in the middle floor also with friezes and cornices, and in the top floor they are casements with architraves. The outer bays have rusticated ground floors, and quoins. The windows in the ground floor are tripartite with Doric pilasters, a frieze and a cornice, and in the middle floor are Venetian windows with Ionic pilasters, friezes, cornices and keystones. Inside, there is a grand late-19th century staircase, and several chimney pieces of similar date.

Kirby Wiske

Kirby Wiske is an English village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire. It lies beside the River Wiske, about 4 miles (6.4 km) north-west of Thirsk.

St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske

St John the Baptist's Church, Kirby Wiske is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Kirby Wiske, North Yorkshire.

Sion Hill Hall

Sion Hill Hall is a historic building in Kirby Wiske, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The hall is built on the site of the village's manor house. The building was commissioned by Percy Stancliffe, designed by Walter Brierley, and was completed in 1913. It is in the neo-Georgian style, and was inspired by Edwin Lutyens' Middlefield House. Historic England describe it as being "generally regarded as one of Brierley's most successful country houses". It was grade II* listed in 1987. The house is built of handmade red brick, with Portland stone dressings, quoins, a floor band, and hipped tile roofs with oversailing eaves. It has two storeys, a central range of three bays, and projecting wings with six bays on the left and four on the right, and a four-bay service wing on the left. The middle bay of the central range is in Portland stone, and contains an Ionic doorcase, and a doorway with an architrave, a fanlight, keystones, and an open round-headed pediment containing the date, and above it is a window with an architrave, scrolled at the bottom. The doorway is flanked by Venetian windows in segmental arches, and most of the other windows are sashes. The garden front has twelve bays, and contains four French windows. The attached courtyard wall is in brick with stone coping and wooden railings, and in the centre are brick gate piers with stone cornices and ball finials. Inside, many of the rooms have 18th-century fireplaces, brought from the former manor house. The grade II-listed lodge is contemporary with the house, and was also designed by Brierley. It is built of red brick, with a dentilled and moulded floor band, and a swept pantile roof. There is one storey and an attic, and two bays. In the centre is a gabled porch on timber columns. It is flanked by horizontally-sliding sash windows, and in the returns are casement windows. The hall has five acres of gardens, which include large stone sculptures moved from the stables at Fountains Abbey. The gardens were restored in the early 21st century, to include a parterre, Long Walk, woodland Lower Walk, kitchen garden and rose garden.