BOLTON ABBEY HALL

BOLTON ABBEY HALL, B6160

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1131774
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: BOLTON ABBEY HALL
Statutory Address:: BOLTON ABBEY HALL, B6160

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1131774
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: BOLTON ABBEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BOLTON ABBEY HALL, B6160

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:: BOLTON ABBEY HALL, B6160

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bolton Abbey
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SE 07292 54204

Details

BOLTON ABBEY B 6160 SE 05 SE (east side, off)

8/67 Bolton Abbey Hall

10.9.54 II* GV

House, formerly the abbey gatehouse. C14, mid C19 additions by Sir Joseph Paxton. Ashlar, graduated stone slate roof. South range: 2 storeys, 3 bays. Gatehouse block: 3 storeys, 1 bay. North range: 2 storeys, 4 bays with a 3-storey bay to extreme right. South range: mid C19, offset diagonal buttress to left-hand side with embattled turrets to top, board door in four-centred arch with flat hoodmould to right-hand side, two 4-light chamfered mullioned windows with cusped lights and flat hoodmoulds to left. First floor: two 3-light and one 2-light windows similar to those below. Band, embattled parapet. Gatehouse block: C14 with C19 alterations. Offset diagonal buttresses. Great gateway has a pointed arch with hoodmould, infilled with a central 2-light pointed arched window, flanked by smaller 5-centred arched windows. First floor: a 4-light double-chamfered mullioned window, hoodmould and a buttress to each side, offset rising to top of second floor window: 2-light chamfered mullioned window with cusped lights and flat hoodmould; flanked by chamfered slit opening. Band, embattled parapet with embattled turrets to buttress. North range: 5 left-hand bays have 3-light chamfered mullioned windows, apart from bays 1 and 4 which are of 2-lights, those to ground floor have hoodmoulds. Band, embattled parapet. Right-hand bay: offset diagonal buttress rising up to second storey. Large 3-light chamfered mullioned windows with transoms, spanning 2 storeys, flanked below bottom transom by an extra light on either side, hoodmould. Third storey: 2-light chamfered mullioned window with hoodmould. Embattled gabled parapet, at apex is an embattled 2-shaft stack, to each side an embattled turret. End stacks and ridge stacks. Interior: the gatehouse is divided into 2 parts by a cross-wall with a separate small passage. A spiral staircase to the upper floors. The roof of pointed tunnel-vaults with ridge ribs, additional longitudinal rills, and closely set transverse arches. The west entrance is blocked by a large C16 fireplace, in the east entrance a reused doorway of c1370, possibly prom the abbey chapter house. Converted into house by the Devonshire family.

Listing NGR: SE0729254207

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Legacy System number:: 323721
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.