High Hall
HIGH HALL, CASTLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149225
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- High Hall
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HALL, CASTLEGATE
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- Date:
- 2001-02-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/03510/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149225
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- High Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HALL, CASTLEGATE
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:
- HIGH HALL, CASTLEGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkbymoorside
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 69534 86784
Details
SE 6886-6986 KIRKBYMOORSIDE CASTLEGATE (west side)
6/28 (1/2) High Hall 3/8/78 II
House. c1615, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and remodelling. Probably built for George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Timber frame within rendered rubble stone walls; brick nogging to interior; pantile roof; concrete stack. Originally 2-storey, 3-bay main range with 2-storey, 2-bay crosswings. Left crossbay rebuilt in C19 and demolished in C20. Main range now 4 bays. Staircase outshut at rear now raised, retains some timber framing. Original entrance is retained to left of centre, under a C20 glazed, stone porch with pitched roof. Porch incorporates a portion of C17 wall which contains a blocked squint window with chamfered reveals. 4-pane sashes to left and right of porch, and in crosswing gable wall. 4 similar windows above. The gable end of the crosswing retains original timber framing consisting of shaped king-post with V-bracing supported by a stop-chamfered tie beam on shaped brackets. Strap-pattern bargeboards are probably C19 and similar barge-boards finish the gable wall to left of main range. Staircase window at rear is a Venetian window with the columns removed, under an earlier thin timber lintel. Interior: the framing posts of the main range survive within the later walls. Stop chamfered joists throughout the ground floor. Mid C18 open string, dogleg staircase with turned balusters and shaped cheekpieces. Dado of fielded panels to staircase, and panelled reveals to staircase window and windows of ground floor room to right. The Hall was re-roofed in 1980 at which time the gable truss from the rear of the right crosswing was removed to the left gable wall of the main range.
Listing NGR: SE6953486784
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328386
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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