Cayton Hall
CAYTON HALL, RIPON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150371
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cayton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CAYTON HALL, RIPON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150371
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cayton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAYTON HALL, RIPON ROAD
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:
- CAYTON HALL, RIPON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- South Stainley with Cayton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 29938 63047
Details
SOUTH STAINLEY WITH CAYTON RIPON ROAD SE 26 SE (west side, off) Cayton 1/120 Cayton Hall
8.3.52
GV II
House. c1770 with a rear wing of C17 remodelled in the C18 and C19. For John Messenger of Fountains Hal1(qv). Ashlar and coursed magnesian limestone with coursed squared gritstone to rear, slate roofs. 2-storey entrance block of 3 x 1 bays and a rear 3 x 2 bay wing. East front: central 6-panel door with fanlight flanked by attached Tuscan columns with open pediment. Venetian windows with double keystones to central lights and continuous sill band to ground floor; 3 sashes with glazing bars in architraves to first floor. Eaves band. Hipped roof; stacks to left and right, behind the ridge. Left return: fenestration to main facade (right) as front. Rear wing - doorway between bays 1 and 2 remodelled mid C20; fenestration: bays 1 and 2 have late C19 replacements of stone mullion windows, bay window to bay 3 of same date. Added bay far left not of special interest. Stone coped gable left with shaped kneeler. Large stacks to left gable and forward of the ridge, between bays 2 and 3. Right return: a Venetian window lights stairs, left, C19 refenestration. Rear (west gable of rear wing): a tall cross window of flat-faced mullions and transoms lights the rear staircase: 4 tiers of paired lights, the top pair having a further pair to left and right and a round-arched light above it. Interior: entrance is into a narrow hall extending as a passage through the centre of the rear wing. The front room, right, contains C17 panelling from the old farmhouse at High Cayton (qv) with doorcase of c1920. Behind is a fine C18 staircase of 3 broad flights, lit by the Venetian window with original plasterwork surround. The rear wing contains central main kitchen with large fireplace, the timber bressumer surviving. The 3 northern rooms were used for storage, the timber cross beams resting on the window lintels. The rear service stairs rise through to the attic storey. First floor: the principal north room contains painted wall plaster representing a baldechon (drapery flanking a throne) and is thought to have been a chapel. Attic storey: C18 2-panel doors with L-shaped hinges, some replaced; the roof structure overall is of king posts with splayed struts from the base, with chisel made assembly marks. Extensive segmental-arched vaulted cellars underlie both ranges and contain stone fittings including a salting trough. Painted wall plaster also survives in the first-floor chapel room of the stables (qv). N A Hudleston, Stainley and Cayton, 1956.
Listing NGR: SE2993863047
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331627
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hudleston, N A, Stainley and Cayton, (1956)
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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