Outbuildings to Watton Abbey
OUTBUILDINGS TO WATTON ABBEY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083773
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuildings to Watton Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- OUTBUILDINGS TO WATTON ABBEY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1083773
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuildings to Watton Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTBUILDINGS TO WATTON ABBEY, CHURCH LANE
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:
- OUTBUILDINGS TO WATTON ABBEY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Watton
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 02326 49907
Details
WATTON CHURCH LANE TA 04 NW (north side, off)
15/70 Outbuildings to Watton Abbey
GV II
Priory buildings, now outbuildings. Probably late C16, with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-yellow brick with moulded brick and ashlar dressings, some ashlar infill and remains of plain tile roof. 2 storeys, the upper of which is recessed slightly, 11 bays. Ashlar plinth. Entrance to third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, ninth and between tenth and eleventh bays. Those to fourth, fifth and sixth are C20 inserted cart and stable openings: that to fourth a cart opening with basket arch and plank door; that to fifth a stable opening under cambered head; that to sixth a cart entrance with timber lintel and plank door. Otherwise original entrances but now all partly infilled. Those to third, seventh and nineth bays have Tudor arches with chamfered surrounds under rubbed brick hoodmoulds with label stops; that to ninth bay now has inserted pointed plank door. Between tenth and eleventh bay a basket-arched opening with roll-moulded ashlar surround, within chamfered brick surround and under rubbed brick hoodmould with label stops. Window openings to first, second, eighth and tenth bays: mainly remains of square wooden casements with chamfered brick inner jambs, chamfered ashlar sills and jambs to two-thirds height and chamfered brick heads under rubbed brick hoodmoulds with label stops. To eleventh bay are remains of an original window of 2-ogeed-lights with eroded chamfered ashlar mullion within similar brick and ashlar surround and under hoodmould. Rubbed brick first-floor band. First-floor openings,similar windows with rubbed brick sills (some now cemented over), chamfered brick jambs and lintels and rubbed brick hoodmoulds with label stops; some have remains of C20 casement windows. Stepped eaves band. Ashlar kneeler and brick copings to left gable, remains of centre front stack. Remains of roof to left. To left gable end a C20 opening and above a pitching door under cambered arch. Tumbled-in brickwork to left gable end. To rear: remains of a now blocked opening to eleventh bay. Inserted off-centre entrance. To tenth bay a now mainly blocked pointed arch over stream with chamfered hoodmould. Stream emerges to front from round arch with chamfered ashlar surround within C19 brick wall approximately 2 metres to front of building. Tunnel has chamfered ribs. Part of the priory founded c1150 for the Gilbertian order. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 361.
Listing NGR: TA0230849906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167882
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 361
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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