Leyburn Hall
LEYBURN HALL, COMMERCIAL SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130898
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Leyburn Hall
- Statutory Address:
- LEYBURN HALL, COMMERCIAL SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130898
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Leyburn Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEYBURN HALL, COMMERCIAL SQUARE
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:
- LEYBURN HALL, COMMERCIAL SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leyburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 11035 90484
Details
SE 19 SW LEYBURN COMMERCIAL SQUARE (west side)
12/24 Leyburn Hall 13/2/67
GV II*
Hall, c1750. For John Yarker. Roughcast with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, E-plan. South elevation: 1:1:5:1:1. Central range: plinth, rusticated quoins. Ground floor: 4-pane sashes in moulded surrounds, the central one eared and enriched with a cornice supported on consoles. String. First floor: sashes with glazing bars in moulded surrounds. Cavetto cornice, blind parapet. Bays 2 and 8 recessed with quoined surrounds to openings, casement window to left, glazed door to right, sash windows with glazing bars above. End pavilions with rusticated quoins and full height round-arched openings with moulded ashlar surrounds to tripartite windows with Doric half-columns below Diocletian windows. Pediments with wrought-iron weather-vanes above. North elevation: 1:1:3:1:1. Central range with central Doric portico to 6-panel door below plain fanlight in moulded surround with moulded imposts and keystone. Sash windows in moulded surrounds, hipped roof. Bays 2 and 4 recessed with Gibbs-style double-decker Venetian window, that to left partially blocked on ground floor. End pavilion wings project, each with 2 tall blind round- arched openings and hipped roof. Interior: arcaded hall. Drawing Room and Morning Room with fine door-cases and cornices, Morning Room has in addition panelling and fine chimney-piece. Staircase hall with ionic columns and imperial staircase with decorative plasterwork ceiling, perhaps by Cortese. West pavilion has very plain, full-height Music Room which could have been a private chapel, as Yarker family had recusant sympathies. Marcus Binney, "Leyburn Hall, North Yorkshire", Country Life October 20 1977, pp. 1090-3.
Listing NGR: SE1103590484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321773
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 20 October, (1977), 1090-3
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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