Knights Stainforth Hall and Knights Cottage
KNIGHTS STAINFORTH HALL AND KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132317
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Knights Stainforth Hall and Knights Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KNIGHTS STAINFORTH HALL AND KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132317
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Knights Stainforth Hall and Knights Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KNIGHTS STAINFORTH HALL AND KNIGHTS COTTAGE
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:
- KNIGHTS STAINFORTH HALL AND KNIGHTS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainforth
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 81473 67210
Details
STAINFORTH KNIGHT STAINFORTH SD 86 NW 2/21 Knight's Stainforth Hall and Knight's Cottage 20.2.58 (formerly listed as Stainforth Hall) GV II Former manor house, now house and cottage. Dated 1672. Slobbered rubble brought to course, stone dressings, stone slate roof. 3 storeys 6 bays. Central entrance has surround of double quirked bead moulding and large plain lintel; C20 door. Sundial above (gnomon now gone) is dated 1724. 6 ground floor chamfered windows; bay 1 is a cross window with cavetto mullions and transoms and hoodmould; remaining windows were originally similar but mullions and transoms are now gone, bay 2 was lowered to create C20 entrance with glazed doors, bay 4 has lost its jambs. Continuous hoodmould over the entrance and flanking window on either side. Chamfered cross windows with cavetto mullions and transoms on first floor except bays 3 and 6 which have lost their mullions and transoms; bay 4 is now blocked. A narrow single-light transomed window between bays 3 and 4 is also blocked. Five 2-light chamfered windows with cavetto mullions on second floor. All windows have C20 casements. Moulded eaves modillions. Gable end ridge stacks and ridge stack between bays 2 and 3. Left-hand return has near symmetrical facade of 3 storeys, 6 bays. Two outer bays on each side are gabled and contain a slightly projecting gable-end stack each supported on two corbels at the level of the first floor window heads. Small datestone above hoodmould of ground floor window in bay 5. Projecting central wing to right of rear contains entrance to Knight's Cottage which has chamfered surround and pointed arched head. The hall was the home of Samuel Watson, an early Quaker who was granted a licence to worship in the hall under the 1689 Toleration Act. Source: T Brayshaw and R M Robinson. A History of the Ancient Parish of Giggleswick (1932), pp 98-102.
Listing NGR: SD8147367210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324363
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brayshaw, T, Robinson, R M, A History of the Ancient Parish of Giggleswick, (1932), 98-102
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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