Lazenby Hall is a historic building near

Danby Wiske Danby Wiske is a village and the main settlement in the civil parish of Danby Wiske with Lazenby, in North Yorkshire, England. The village lies north north-west of the county town of Northallerton. History Danby Wiske was mentioned in the Do ...

, a village in

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, in England. The house was built for Henry Carey, some time between 1625 and 1661. After his death, it was leased out, and some of the internal plasterwork dates from this period, with one ceiling being dated 1680. There were some alterations in the late 19th and 20th centuries, mostly to the windows. The building was

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in 1953. The building is described by Tim Mowl and Brian Earnshaw as "attractively brash and truly Artisan", using motifs from

classical architecture Classical architecture typically refers to architecture consciously derived from the principles of Ancient Greek architecture, Greek and Ancient Roman architecture, Roman architecture of classical antiquity, or more specifically, from ''De archit ...

in combinations not consistent with any order of architecture. The house is built of stone, with a

chamfer A chamfer ( ) is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces. Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, fur ...

ed floor band, and a stone slate roof with chamfered

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and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and attics, and a main front of five

bays A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

, flanked by projecting wings two bays wide and three bays deep. In the centre is a doorway flanked by Doric half-shafts on a panelled

plinth A pedestal or plinth is a support at the bottom of a statue, vase, column, or certain altars. Smaller pedestals, especially if round in shape, may be called socles. In civil engineering, it is also called ''basement''. The minimum height o ...

with a

pulvinated frieze In classical architecture, the frieze is the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Corinthian orders, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither ...

and a

dentil A dentil (from Lat. ''dens'', a tooth) is a small block used as a repeating ornament in the bedmould of a cornice. Dentils are found in ancient Greek and Roman architecture, and also in later styles such as Neoclassical, Federal, Georgian Rev ...

led

cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative Moulding (decorative), moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, ar ...

. The windows are double-chamfered

mullion A mullion is a vertical element that forms a division between units of a window or screen, or is used decoratively. It is also often used as a division between double doors. When dividing adjacent window units its primary purpose is a rigid sup ...

ed and transomed, divided by Doric

pilaster In architecture, a pilaster is both a load-bearing section of thickened wall or column integrated into a wall, and a purely decorative element in classical architecture which gives the appearance of a supporting column and articulates an ext ...

s under a continuous cornice, some of which have been replaced by

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. The middle bay is flanked by Ionic half-shafts on panelled plinths with

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s above.

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