Camp Hill House is a historic building in Carthorpe, a village in

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, in England. A

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on the site was first recorded in 1741, when it was known as "Badger Hall". At the time, the land was owned by James Hoyland, head gardener at

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, and he may have been responsible for designing the grounds. In the 1790s, it was renamed "Camp Hill", and in 1799 it was purchased by William Rookes Leeds Serjeantson. He had the house rebuilt in about 1820, at a cost of £12,000. It was

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in 1998. The grounds are now used for

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. The house is built of stone, with brick at the rear, a sill band, a moulded

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and a blocking course, and a hipped

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roof. It has two storeys, nine

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, and a rear wing. The middle three bays project, and contain a Doric porch with two columns, two

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s without a

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, and a cornice, and a double doorway with a moulded

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, and a

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with radial glazing bars. The windows are

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, most of those in the ground floor with moulded architraves, and those in the upper floor with cornices on consoles. Inside, there is a cantilevered open-well stone staircase, with an oval lantern. The dining room is panelled, while plasterwork cornices and mahogany doors survive in many rooms. The house is atop a small hill, surrounded by 40 hectares of garden and parkland, and an additional 100 hectares of woodland. The gardens probably date from 1820, and there are two walled gardens to the north of the hall. South of the main building is an ice house, which is also grade II listed. It is built of red brick, and largely covered in earth. It has a circular plan with a brick

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ed entrance passage. Three steps lead down to a circular chamber deep, with a domed roof.

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* {{coord, 54.23717, -1.52324, format=dms, type:landmark_region:GB, display=title Grade II listed buildings in North Yorkshire Country houses in North Yorkshire Houses completed in 1820

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