Canons Garth and Doorway and Walls
CANONS GARTH AND DOORWAY AND WALLS, CANONS GARTH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1149306
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Canons Garth and Doorway and Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CANONS GARTH AND DOORWAY AND WALLS, CANONS GARTH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1149306
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Canons Garth and Doorway and Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANONS GARTH AND DOORWAY AND WALLS, CANONS GARTH LANE
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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:
- CANONS GARTH AND DOORWAY AND WALLS, CANONS GARTH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helmsley
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 61224 83923
Details
SE 6083-6183 HELMSLEY CANONS' GARTH LANE (east side) 10/45 Canons' Garth and doorway and walls 4.1.55 (Formerly listed under Church Street) - II*
House. Late C14 with C17 and late C19 additions and restoration and C20 restoration. Timber framing, sandstone rubble, plain tiles, stone tiles, stone stacks. C14 hall with evidence of former aisle to rear, with C17 cross wing to left, lean-to extension to extreme left and 1889 cross wing with extension to right. Former cross passage in left-hand wing replaced by C17 central porch entry rebuilt in 1975. Ground floor and hall underbuilt in stone with close studded timber framing to all gables and first floor of wings and porch. C19 casement windows throughout. Steeply pitched roof with gable to left encroached upon by later cross wing. Stacks to left and at rear of left-hand cross wing, right-hand ridge stack to hall and on extreme right-hand extension. Interior: hall fireplace with massive bressumer and 9 studs above backed on to by second fireplace now in 1889 chapel. Possible salt box in stone wall in passage. C17 inserted ceiling in hall with step chamfered cross beam. Medieval floor tiles from Rievaulx Abbey on floor of 1889 Chapel. C16 moulded stone fireplace from Helmsley Castle in 1889 study. Complex C14 roof structure to hall with double tie beam, crown post and multiple struts. Doorway and walls to front of property. Mc Donnell (ed), History of Helmsley, Rievaulx and District, 1963; 'North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report', No 24.
Listing NGR: SE6122483923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328271
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
McDonnell, J, A History of Helmsley Rievaulx and District, (1963)
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 24, ()
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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