SKELTON MANOR

SKELTON MANOR, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1149145
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: SKELTON MANOR
Statutory Address:: SKELTON MANOR, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1149145
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:: SKELTON MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: SKELTON MANOR, CHURCH LANE

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:: SKELTON MANOR, CHURCH LANE

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

District:: York (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Skelton
National Grid Reference:: SE 56820 56601

Details

SE 55 NE SKELTON CHURCH LANE (north side, off)

4/78 Skelton Manor

29.1.53 GV II *

House. Mid C16 origins with major alterations of early-mid C18 and late C19. For Edward Besley, the Roman Catholic MP for York and his wife Bridget Nelson. Vestigial timber framing subsequently cased in brick, with plain tile roof. Probably originally a hall with 2 cross wings to the rear, now hallway entry with wings breaking forward slightly. 2 storeys, 6 first- floor windows. Late C19 mullion and transom windows. C19 gabled porch with battened door to left of central section and large 6-light transomed window to right. Left wing: 5-light window. Right wing: 6-light canted bay window. First floor: 2-light fixed windows to central section and left wing. 4-light fixed window to right wing. Hipped roofs to wings. Ridge stack and right end stack. Interior: surviving posts in the kitchen, near the back stairs, by the door to the cellar and at the west end of the main staircase probably delineate the original back wall, while studding in the rear passage and a truss at the top of the back stairs supporting a wall plate running to the north suggest cross wings to the rear. The post in the kitchen is marked IIII. The north wall of the kitchen contains a fine chamfered and stopped bressumer. The entrance hall is panelled in oak, C17 in date, with a plaster acanthus frieze above. The niche in the north wall is a C20 insertion, but in character. The overmantel is elaborately carved with arches within the panels, and may not be original in this position. The cupboard door and that to the back stairs both have cocks head hinges. To the left of the hall is the dining room with a fine frieze of pomegranates, roses, carnations and grapes to the cross beam. The walls have C17 panelling with a frieze and the fireplace, which may be C16 in origin, has some Victorian work included. To the right of the hall the sitting room is panelled in light oak. Closed string main staircase with vine-scroll strings, elaborately carved newels and mirror balusters. Comparison with the staircase at Sheriff Hutton Park suggests that it might be by Thomas Ventris of York. First floor: the chamber over the hall is panelled throughout with a carved and arcaded frieze similar to that at 58 Stonegate, York (early C17). This date is supported by the style of the caryatids and atlantes which stand on classical bases and bear blank shields and separate each round-arched panel. Full height figures flank the fireplace, one a caryatid holding a quill and a bird, and the other an atlantus holding a harp. The north-south ceiling beam carries a plaster frieze of pomegranates, the emblem of Katherine of Aragon, which suggests a mid - late C16 date for this feature. The doorway from the landing into this room is of late C16 date with 2 wooden C15 bosses attached. The cupboard by this door carries C17 arabesques, but the butterfly hinges suggest re-use in the C18. The small sitting room to the left of the landing contains a plaster frieze of mermaids and mermen with shields. This is late C16 and has been interrupted by the insertion of the C17 staircase. Mermaids were the symbol of Mary, Queen of Scots so this may be a reference to Catholicism. The panelling in the west bedroom is C17 and painted white, but is probably not original to this room. The east bedroom has light oak panelling. In the north wall of the north bedroom a post and wall plate are visible, giving further evidence for a rear cross wing to the original timber-framed structure. The interior of this house is exceptionally well preserved and has been restored with very great care. Gee E A, Skelton Manor on-site notes (typescript only, 1978). North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Building Study Group Report No 771.

Listing NGR: SE5681956602

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'North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report' in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, , Vol. 771, ()

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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.