FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT

FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT, QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1148489
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT
Statutory Address:: FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT, QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1148489
Date first listed:: 09-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT, QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER COACH HOUSE AND STABLES ADJOINING ESCRICK PARK TO REAR RIGHT, QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Escrick
National Grid Reference:: SE 63208 42346

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/01/2018

SE 64 SW 2/19

ESCRICK MAIN STREET Queen Margaret's School Former coach house and stables adjoining Escrick Park to rear right

(Formerly listed as Coach house and stables adjoining Escrick Park to rear right, ESCRICK PARK ESTATE)

GV II * Coach house and stables, now school. 1763 with later additions and alterations including those of mid-late C20. By John Carr for Beilby Thompson.

Pinkish-brown brick with red brick and ashlar dressings, cement rendered to front facade, with Welsh slate roof. Square on plan around central open courtyard.

Two storeys, nine bays of which the centre three project slightly. Plinth. Entrance now to side (see below). Central entrance now has 12-pane sash with radial glazing to head and plank infill to lower part, set within recessed arch with moulded ashlar head. Similar recessed arches to second and eighth bays. Unequally-hung 15-pane sashes with radial glazing to heads except to ninth bay which has a shallower, blind opening, all with ashlar sills. Continuous impost band.

Second storey has 6-pane sashes with ashlar sills. Ashlar dentil cornice. Dentil pediment to centre bays contains clock and is surmounted by ashlar peristyle of Doric columns on plinth with domed lead roof. Hipped roof. Ridge and rear stacks. Returns of single tall storey and nine bays. Right return has elliptically-arched entrance now with C20 glazed doors but retaining overlight with decorative glazing bars. Otherwise tall arches with red rubbed brick to heads now with C20 sashes within. Left return has two slightly-projecting pedimented bays.

York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr, 1973, p 11. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1978, p 224.

Listing NGR: SE6320842346

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 224
'York Georgian Society' in York Georgian Society, (1973), 11

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.