Abbeystead
ABBEYSTEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1071597
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Abbeystead
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEYSTEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1071597
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Abbeystead
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEYSTEAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEYSTEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Wyresdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 56725 54505
Details
SD 55 SE OVER WYRESDALE ABBEYSTEAD
12/37 Abbeystead - GV II
Country house, built by Douglas and Fordham as a shooting lodge for the Earl of Sefton in 1886. Sandstone rubble with slate roofs. Elizabethan style. Two main ranges at right angles form the south and east sides of an entrance courtyard. On the east side subsidiary buildings are grouped around a second courtyard. 2 storeys with attics. Elevations irregular, with mullioned or mullioned and transomed windows, projecting bay windows, and gables with ball finials. Main part of south facade has 4 gabled projections with canted sides, each of a different size and design. To each side of the 2nd projection are gabled attic dormers. Chimneys have tall shafts. The main entrance is through a porch on the north side of this range. Above the outer Tudor-arched doorway are the Molyneux arms carved in stone. The range on the east side of the courtyard incorporates a 4-storey tower. Inside, the hall has 2 moulded stone fireplaces dated 1887 with simple stone surrounds surmounted by fluted Ionic columnettes bearing small figures carved in the round. Small-panelled overmantles bear the Molyneux arms. Towards the rear of the room is a timber arcade. Other rooms have ceilinqs with carved ribs with low-relief panels between. The stair has barley-sugar balusters.
Listing NGR: SD5672554505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 182573
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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