Mulgrave Castle and Screen Walls to North
MULGRAVE CASTLE AND SCREEN WALLS TO NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1148891
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Mulgrave Castle and Screen Walls to North
- Statutory Address:
- MULGRAVE CASTLE AND SCREEN WALLS TO NORTH
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05780/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1148891
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Mulgrave Castle and Screen Walls to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- MULGRAVE CASTLE AND SCREEN WALLS TO NORTH
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:
- MULGRAVE CASTLE AND SCREEN WALLS TO NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lythe
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 84789 12557
Details
NZ 81 SW LYTHE
4/166 Mulgrave Castle and 6.10.69 screen walls to north
- II*
Mansion. Earliest (central) part before 1735 for the Duchess of Buckingham, heightened, extended and given projecting side wings by Soane in 1786-7. Some embattling of parapets in the 1790s. Additions of entrance feature, towers and turrets by William Atkinson 1814-16. Coursed, squared stone; Lakeland slate roofs. Main garden front of 3 storeys, 13 bays in all; the wider central bay (now having a projecting Tudor-style entrance feature) and 3 flanking bays either side being of the original house. A further flanking bay leads to the two-bay projecting wing at each side. Sash windows with glazing bars. Five-bay left return in similar style. Irregular rear elevation in Tudor style shows a projecting hexagonal tower with stair turret. Curved screen walls run from north angles of house and conceal the stable yard and ancillary buildings. Fine landscaped setting, by Repton, 1792. Pevsner, Yorkshire, The North Riding p.260
Listing NGR: NZ8478912557
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327241
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 260
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,
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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