Dam at South End of Lake
DAM AT SOUTH END OF LAKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149840
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dam at South End of Lake
- Statutory Address:
- DAM AT SOUTH END OF LAKE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15666/27
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149840
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dam at South End of Lake
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAM AT SOUTH END OF LAKE
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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:
- DAM AT SOUTH END OF LAKE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Plompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 35533 53617
Details
SE 35 SE PLOMPTON PLOMPTON ROCKS
5/241 Dam at south end of Lake
GV II
Dam. c.1760. For Daniel Lascelles, probably by John Carr. Coursed gritstone with extensive rock-faced rustication. Approximately 70 metres long, 5 metres high and 6 metres wide. Symmetrical south-facing facade composed of: central round arched recess flanked by (in order) - large buttress, walling (with iron valve to left), buttress, wall with circular recess, buttress, walling and outer buttress. Remains of low parapet with flat coping. The arched recesses have projecting keystones and voussoirs; buttresses have heavy banded rustication, the outer pair with large banded ball finials. Several stone-lined channels carry water away from the south side of the dam and much of the parapet, including at least one ball finial, has fallen down into this area. The dam is thickly overgrown with creepers and trees. John Carr submitted a design for the dam head in 1755 and although it is claimed that it was never built (Wragg p15) the extant remains are very similar to it. R B Wragg, 'John Carr: Gothic Revivalist'in W A Singleton (ed), Studies in Architectural History, Vol II, pp 9-34.
Listing NGR: SE3553353617
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330912
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Singleton, WA, Studies in Architectural History, (), 9-34
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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