The Rock
THE ROCK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131922
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROCK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131922
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1969
- List Entry Name:
- The Rock
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROCK
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.
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:
- THE ROCK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ1999904607
Details
NZ 10 SE
NZ 1804-1904
9/144
15/144
4.2.69
GILLING WITH HARTFORTH AND SEDBURY
SEDBURY PARK
The Rock
(formerly listed as The Folly, Sedbury Park)
GV
II
Folly. Dated 1795. By John Foss of Richmond for the D'Arcy Hutton family.
Coursed rubble sandstone. 2-storey circular tower enclosed by octagonal
single-storey base from which side-walls extend along the top of the outcrop
of rock upon which it is built. The base contained the staircase, but is
now partly collapsed; each side had a blind pointed-arched window, the
voussoirs alternately rusticated, and had battlemented parapet, all now
gone. Tower has 4 pointed-arched openings with matching voussoirs; similar
treatment to course of stone next but one below eaves band, and with water-
spout to south-west, former battlemented parapet gone. Side walls, now
partly collapsed, had pointed-arched openings, one surviving in north wall,
and battlemented parapet (now gone). Interior: upper room of ashlar, and
with saucer dome; "RDH 1797" inscribed on lintel above north-east window.
York Georgian Society, Annual Report, 1977, pp 40-41.
Listing NGR: NZ1999904607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
York Georgian Society Annual Report in York Georgian Society Annual Report, (1977), 40-41
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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