THE WOOL ROOM

THE WOOL ROOM, LODGE YARD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131182
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: THE WOOL ROOM
Statutory Address:: THE WOOL ROOM, LODGE YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131182
Date first listed:: 09-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: THE WOOL ROOM
Statutory Address 1:: THE WOOL ROOM, LODGE YARD

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:: THE WOOL ROOM, LODGE YARD

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Askrigg
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD 94872 91100

Details

ASKRIGG LODGE YARD SD 99 SW 19/6 The Wool Room GV II Wool Room, now partly used as a garage. Late C18 - early C19. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows to west elevation. On ground floor, doorway to left, and 12-pane window. 2 small openings on first floor. North elevation consists of a long range with external steps up to the first floor. Large C20 openings on ground floor. Fleeces were brought to the Wool Room from the surrounding farms for excise purposes. Access to it was probably through Robinson's Gateways (qv). It is a rare survival of a building representing the historically important Wensleydale woollen and knitting industries. Included for group value. Hartley M and Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), p 121.

Listing NGR: SD9487291100

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Legacy System number:: 323028
Legacy System:: LBS

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Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), 121

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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.