Colburn Hall

COLBURN HALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1131498
Date first listed:
19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Colburn Hall
Statutory Address:
COLBURN HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1131498
Date first listed:
19-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Colburn Hall
Statutory Address 1:
COLBURN HALL

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
COLBURN HALL

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Colburn
National Grid Reference:
SE 19610 99228

Details

COLBURN COLBURN SE 19 NE

3/52 Colburn Hall 19.12.51 GV II* Manor house. Range dated 1662 added to an earlier range at right angles. Rubble, stone slate roof. T-shaped plan, 2 storeys, 1:3 first-floor windows, range to right with continuous rear outshut. Quoins. Right range (later): central oak board door with glazed panel in slightly-chamfered ashlar surround with hood-mould. Above, square stone carved with coat of arms of D'Arcy family, flanked by scrolls, dating from 1621 and brought from, Sedbury Hall near Gilling West. 16-pane sash windows with pointed-arch glazing bars to top row of panes, below deep lintels. To left, on first floor, part of stone surrounds to 2 tall, narrow windows shown in that position in Samuel Buck's sketch. Gable-end elevation of left range: on ground floor, C20 4-light casement window under segmental-pointed relieving arch; on first floor, 16-pane sash window with deep lintel, set within wider opening of quoined jambs under segmental-pointed relieving arch; blocked 2- light double-chamfered mullion window in gable. Shaped kneelers (of earlier form on west range), ashlar copings, C20 replacement finials. Stacks between first and second bays and at end right. Rear: later range has two 2-light chamfered mullion windows in outshut, that to right without mullion . Left return (earlier range): blocked first-floor doorway at right end; corniced stack from first-floor fireplace towards left; stack from ground-floor fireplace towards right. Right return (later range): older roofline of lower building than present (as shown on Samuel Buck's sketch); kneelers dated "16" and "62", probably reused when roof raised. Interior: in ground-floor room to right, late C18 basket-arched ashlar surround for kitchen range, and ogee-stop-chamfered cross-beams and some chamfered joists; ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams in central ground-floor room; in left range, rougher chamfered cross-beams and bible box cavity in east wall of front room. The hall is part of the medieval complex which includes the former Courthouse (qv) and which is shown on a sketch of "Cowburn" in Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook (Wakefield Historical Publications, 1979), p 382. VCH; i, p 301.

Listing NGR: SE1961099228

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
322365
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 301
Hall, I, Samuel Bucks Yorkshire Sketch Book, (1979), 382

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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