Park House
PARK HOUSE, FOUNTAINS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149827
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Park House
- Statutory Address:
- PARK HOUSE, FOUNTAINS LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12588/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149827
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK HOUSE, FOUNTAINS LANE
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:
- PARK HOUSE, FOUNTAINS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Markington with Wallerthwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2668767660
Details
SE 26 NE
5/59
6.3.57
MARKINGTON WITH WALLERTHWAITE
FOUNTAINS LANE
(west side, off)
Park House
II
Farmhouse. C17 and 1810. Coursed squared gritstone and coursed gritstone
rubble, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays. South front: bay to right is
remnant of a C17 house, the left 2 bays and the third storey overall is a
rebuild of 1810. Quoins to left. C20 6-panel door between bays to left has
sawn stone surround and a date stone above inscribed 'T. Athorpe Esqr
1810'. A large stone above has a carving in relief of a shield with lion
rampant. Flanking and first-floor windows have 16-pane C20 pivoting frames
in sawn stone surrounds. Bay to right has cross-window to ground and first
floor, both considerably restored. Kneeler and gable coping to left; roof
hipped to right. Stacks to right end and centre. Rear: C20 porch with
large external stack to left, C19 and C20 windows to right. Left return:
stone steps up to door in gable. Right return: central C20 door with almost
flat-arched chamfered stone lintel and jambs, weathered datestone set into
top of lintel. Corbelled base of external stack to first-floor fireplace
above the door. To right: 3-light recessed mullion and transom window, a 2-
light and a single-light mullioned window to first floor, and a 16-pane
window to second floor. Interior: ground floor, restored C20, has open
fireplace with cambered arch of voussoirs (restored) in room to left. The
second floor was built as a storage chamber with access from the external
stairs at the west end. The roof is divided by 5 oak trusses, the timbers
of slight scantling and thickened at the joints. The tie beam has a king-
post supporting a collar with another post above, and 3 diagonal braces
extend from king posts to principal rafters which carry 4 sets of purlins.
An excellent closely-dated roof. B Harrison and B Hutton, Vernacular Houses
in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, 1984 p 181. North Yorkshire and Cleveland
Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report Number 40 (1975).
Listing NGR: SE2668767660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330980
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harrison, B, Hutton, B, Vernacular Houses in North Yorkshire and Cleveland, (1984), 181
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 40, (1975)
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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