Editing Bretton Hall, West Yorkshire (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Bretton Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Bretton Hall's south range]]
The oldest part of the house, the south range dates from about 1720 and was designed by the owner, Sir William Wentworth and Colonel James Moyser. 
It was enlarged when the north range was added in the 1780s by William Lindley of Doncaster. A [[bow window]] and [[portico]] were added to the south range and the block linking the two ranges was remodelled between 1811 and 1814 by [[Jeffry Wyattville|Jeffrey Wyatt]] for Colonel Thomas and Diana Beaumont. Around 1852 Thomas Richardson added the projecting dining room on the house's east front for Thomas Blackett Beaumont.<ref name="EH"/>

===Exterior===
The house has a three-storey nine-bay by five-bay main range while the rest is two storeys high. It is built in [[sandstone]] [[ashlar]] and its roof is hidden behind a [[balustrade]]d [[parapet]]. It has tall ornamental chimney stacks and the Wentworth shield decorates two ornamental rainwater heads. The south range has a symmetrical [[facade]] with a central [[Doric order|Doric]] portico. The ground and first-floor windows have 12-pane [[Sash window|sashes]] with triangular [[pediment]]s to the ground floor and [[cornices]] to the first. The shorter second floor windows have [[Casement window|casement]]s added later. The south front has a three-bay [[bow window]] with tall ground-floor windows. The centre window was originally a doorway accessed by a flight of four steps.<ref name="EH"/>

The seven-bay north range has a symmetrical facade where the three centre bays have giant [[pilaster]]s supporting a pediment. Either side of central eight-panel double door are 12-pane sash windows while the first-floor has nine-pane sash windows. A three-bay link block joins the ranges and terminates in the [[orangery]]. The orangery is built on a two-step [[podium]]. Its seven bays are divided by square [[Tuscan order|Tuscan]] [[Pier (architecture)|piers]] which support the [[frieze]], cornice and blocking course.<ref name="EH"/>

===Interior===
The entrance hall to the south range has a [[groin vault]]ed passage with three arches and piers and its walls are decorated with [[grisaille]] paintings. Its main staircase has a [[wrought iron]] handrail. On either side the old billiard room and former breakfast room have [[Adam style]] ceilings from about 1770. The link range has an entrance [[vestibule (architecture)|vestibule]] with four piers supporting a glazed [[dome]] on [[pendentive]]s. On the first floor the vestibule opens onto the half-landing of the south range's main staircase. The old drawing room has a [[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] ceiling with pendant bosses. The former library and music room were in the [[Regency architecture|Regency style]] of the 1811–14 extensions. The library had an [[apse]] where there was an organ, a coved ceiling with [[rinceau]] decoration,  and a marble fireplace. The dining room was decorated in the [[Rococo style]] in about 1852. It has an elaborate marble fireplace and frieze and its ceiling is decorated with musical instruments.<ref name="EH"/>