The Red House is a historic building in Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
The house was built in 1854 by William Butterfield, as part of a group with St Paul's Church, Hensall and Hensall Primary School. It was constructed as the vicarage for the church, but later became a private house. Peter Ferriday sees the house as presaging arts and crafts architecture, saying that it "could easily be mistaken for a house by Philip Webb, and challenges the Red House as the first example of a conscious Victorian return to an honest unpretentious style of house-building". It is a grade II* listed building.
The house is built of pinkish-brown brick with a grey slate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and a single-story rear range. The doorway has a pointed fanlight under a pointed arch. The windows are sashes, some tripartite, those in the ground floor under header arches and pointed relieving arches, and there is a half-hipped roof dormer. Inside, there are numerous original features, including the bookshelves and fireplace in the library; fireplace and panelling in the dining room; and the staircase. There are also many original doors and some window shutters.
See also
- Grade II* listed buildings in North Yorkshire (district)
- Listed buildings in Hensall, North Yorkshire
References
- ^ "The Red House". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 12 January 2025.
- Ferriday, Peter (1963). Victorian Architecture. J. Cape.
- Harman, Ruth; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2017), Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22468-9