Bentham Hall

Bentham Hall, Duke Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131617
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Bentham Hall
Statutory Address:
Bentham Hall, Duke Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131617
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:
Bentham Hall
Statutory Address 1:
Bentham Hall, Duke Street

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Bentham Hall, Duke Street

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bentham
National Grid Reference:
SD6639169290

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 October 2024 to correct a typo in the Description reformat the text to current standards

SD 66 NE
6/10

BENTHAM
High Bentham (west side)
DUKE STREET
Bentham Hall

GV
II

Formerly farmhouse, now two cottages. Mid-late C17 with C20 alterations. Slobbered rubble, stone dressings, stone slate roof. Two storey gabled entrance bay to right and two-storey wing to left which breaks forward slightly. Right-hand entrance has plain surround and plank door. To left is heightened ground floor two-light chamfered window with c1980 mullion, similar but three-light window on upper floor; C20 leaded casements. Small window with chamfered surround in gable with three rows of pigeon holes above. A tall stack projects from the left-hand side of the gable, part of which is butt-jointed. Left-hand wing has ground floor two-light chamfered mullioned window and single light chamfered window to right. Upper floor has three-light chamfered mullioned window. All have C20 casements. Left-hand gable end ridge stack. A right-hand wing of the hall was burnt and replaced c1900 by two adjoining cottages. A reset decorated panel in a C20 porch is dated 1669 and has initials SH/A.

Listing NGR: SD6639169290

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
324066
Legacy System:
LBS

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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