Giggleswick School Hostel
Giggleswick School Hostel, Craven Bank Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131722
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Giggleswick School Hostel
- Statutory Address:
- Giggleswick School Hostel, Craven Bank Lane
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131722
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Giggleswick School Hostel
- Statutory Address 1:
- Giggleswick School Hostel, Craven Bank Lane
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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.
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:
- Giggleswick School Hostel, Craven Bank Lane
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Giggleswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 80855 64142
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 September 2025 to reformat the text to current standards
SD 8064-8164
12/16
GIGGLESWICK
CRAVEN BANK LANE (north side)
Giggleswick School Hostel
GV
II
Hostel and dining hall. 1868 and 1875 by Austin and Paley. Gothic. Snecked stone, Westmorland slate roof. Tripartite composition: 1868 central three storeys, two bay entrance tower with recessed two storeys six bay wing to left. Left-hand projecting gabled three storeys bay and right-hand recessed two storeys five bay wing with projecting right-hand three storeys bay are additions of 1875. Entrance tower has left-hand entrance with four-centre head; moulded surround, plank doors. Four-light mullioned and transomed ground floor window to right with King mullion. First floor two-light and three-light mullioned and transomed windows. Second floor sill band. Two-two-light windows with cinquefoil cusped heads. Embattled tower to left-hand bay with gargoyles, gable to right with crocketted finial. Gabled end bays differ in treatment. Left-hand bay is broader and contains entrance and canted bay window. First floor three- and two-light mullioned and transomed windows. Four lancets to second floor. Right-hand bay two two-light mullioned and transomed windows with Y tracery on ground floor. Four-light mullioned and transomed window on first floor and two-light window with round-heads on second floor, crocketted finial. End bays are linked to centre by two-storey range of six and five bays respectively: two-light windows. Dormers have round-headed casements and projecting eaves with quartrefoils in gales. Left-hand, right-hand and central stacks. Louvred vents to wings.
Source E A Bell A History of Giggleswick School (Leeds, 1912'
Listing NGR: SD8085564142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323798
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bell, E A, A History of Giggleswick School, (1912)
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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