Pyramid Gatehouse and Flanking Wings
PYRAMID GATEHOUSE AND FLANKING WINGS, THE STRAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148979
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Pyramid Gatehouse and Flanking Wings
- Statutory Address:
- PYRAMID GATEHOUSE AND FLANKING WINGS, THE STRAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148979
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Pyramid Gatehouse and Flanking Wings
- Statutory Address 1:
- PYRAMID GATEHOUSE AND FLANKING WINGS, THE STRAY
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:
- PYRAMID GATEHOUSE AND FLANKING WINGS, THE STRAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Henderskelfe
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 71066 69465
Details
HENDERSKELFE THE STRAY SE 7169 Castle Howard 12/73 Pyramid Gatehouse and flanking wings 25.1.54 (formerly listed as The Gatehouse) GV I Gatehouse. 1719 by Sir John Vanbrugh for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Flanking wings 1756 by Sir Thomas Robinson for Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle. Gatehouse: limestone ashlar, stone slate roof. Chamfered plinth. Round arch surmounted by Carlisle arms. Impost band on consoles with 2-course band held on consoles at springer level and Carlisle arms above. Machicolation over arch with central keystone bearing a head in relief. Sunk plaque above reads "Carolus Howard Comes Carliolensis Hoc Condidit Anno Dni MDCCXIX". Pyramidal roof surmounted by pyramid as eyecatcher. Interior of arch has quadripartite vault. Victorian wall letter box. Entrances to wings: 6-fielded-panel double-leaf doors beneath flat stone arches with blind lunettes over. Flanking wings: 2 storeys, 8 bays, forming symmetrical composition, not individually symmetrical, but balancing one another. Second and outer bays break forward and are pedimented. All ground-floor windows are round-arched sashes, those to 7 outer bays recessed in a keyed arcade with impost band. First-floor band. 6-pane sashes to left wing. Casements to right wing. Moulded cornice and parapet. Ball finials to pediments. Ridge stacks. 1758 on rainwater heads. To rear at left gable end are 2 cellars over which runs a balcony supported by a Tuscan column and approached by an L-shaped flight of steps leading to a gable end door. Machicolated square turret abutts the stairs. The interior of the left wing was completely destroyed by fire in 1923 and has been refurbished. Until recently the wings were attributed to Daniel Garrett; a legal submission in Castle Howard Archives (G3/4/1) dated 1759 shows conclusively that they are by Sir Thomas Robinson. Hussey C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, 1967. Lees-Milne J, English Country Houses: Baroque 1685-1715, 1970. HBMC, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England, Part 32, North Yorkshire: Castle Howard, Grade I.
Listing NGR: SE7108469467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329029
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Milne, J L, English Country Houses Baroque 1685-1715, (1970)
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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