ELMSWELL OLD HALL

ELMSWELL OLD HALL, ELMSWELL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1083792
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1966
List Entry Name:: ELMSWELL OLD HALL
Statutory Address:: ELMSWELL OLD HALL, ELMSWELL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1083792
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1966
List Entry Name:: ELMSWELL OLD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: ELMSWELL OLD HALL, ELMSWELL LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: ELMSWELL OLD HALL, ELMSWELL LANE

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

District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Garton
National Grid Reference:: SE 99796 58140

Details

SE 95 NE 1470/9/11 20-SEP-1966

GARTON ELMSWELL LANE (South, off), Elmswell Elmswell Old Hall

II*

House. 1634 for Henry Best with late C18 rebuilding to left side of front facade and later additions and alterations including C19 range to front. Reddish-pink brick with pantile roof 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows, the left side is recessed and to right a single-storey, single-bay range. Off-centre entrance a board door with overlight with vertical glazing bars. Above an ashlar female head. Further entrance to right a board door. To left side are two 16-pane sashes under flat arches of rubbed brick. To right 2 lights of a mullion window within double-hollow-chamfered surround and with rubbed brick mullions, interrupted by later range. Remains of rubbed brick band to right side. First floor has three 16-pane sashes under flat arches of rubbed brick to left side, and to right a casement window under segmental arch. 2 ashlar date plaques, now eroded inserted in range to front. Stepped caves to left. Brick copings to gable ends. 3 rear stacks, that to left has rubbed brick cornice. Gable ends: plinth. To ground and fast floor to left and to fist floor to right a 5-light mullion window now blocked, with rubbed brick mullions and in double hollow-chamfered surrounds, partly obscured by cement. To right, ground floor a tall 3-light Yorkshire sash. 3-course first- and 2-course second-floor bands. To left a casement window to gable and to right remains of a pitching door. Interior. C17 panelling to some rooms. Elmswell Old Hall, whilst disused and dilapidated at present, is of outstanding significance for its historical associations with Henry Best, its builder. It can clearly he identified with the house in which he wrote his Farming and Memorandum Books relating to the full range of farming and social activities in the region. The house formed the heart of a farming estate, the minutiae and dynamics of which are set out in remarkable detail in the books and they provide a nationally-important archive of information for historians of all aspects of post-medieval rural life. D Woodward, ed, The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell 1642, 1984, illus. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 305. Bibliography 3696: The Famiing and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell 1642, 1984. 3698 The Buildings of England, Yorkshire York and the East Riding (Nikolaus Pevsner and John Hutchingson), 1972, Page(s) 305.

Listing NGR: SE9979658140

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Legacy System number:: 167822
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell 1642, (1984)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 305

Legal

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