High Apprentice House
HIGH APPRENTICE HOUSE, HARDISTY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150457
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Apprentice House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH APPRENTICE HOUSE, HARDISTY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150457
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Apprentice House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH APPRENTICE HOUSE, HARDISTY HILL
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 APPRENTICE HOUSE, HARDISTY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fewston
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1689956054
Details
SE 15 NE
2/39
FEWSTON
HARDISTY HILL
(west side)
Blubberhouses
High Apprentice House
II
House. c1800 altered probably mid C19. Coursed squared gritstone laid to
watershot courses, graduated stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 bays with
2-storey, 2-bay additions to left and arched gateway far left. Doors with
tie-stone jambs to bays 1 and 2; bay 1 doorhead raised and a round arch
inserted, bay 2 former paired doors, that to right blocked. Windows: ground
and first floors: 4-pane sashes in sawn-stone surrounds, inserted round
arched heads to ground floor only. 16-pane sashes to second floor.
Possible blocked loading door first floor, left. Shaped gutter brackets and
kneelers; gable copings. End stacks and between bays 1 and 2. Added bays
to left (of 2 builds): rectangular 2-pane window to left, 16-pane fixed
window to right. Central ridge stack. Rear: the facade, including the
outbuildings, is rendered and lined to resemble ashlar. The main block has
a central door with tie-stone jambs, flanking 2-light flat-faced mullion
windows to ground and first floors and single lights first-floor centre and
second floor. Similar fenestration to lower block, right. A second round
arch to right. Interior: no access between bays 1 and 2 at ground floor:
remainder of house has common access but the rear range of rooms, with
central staircase, has mid-late C19 fireplace, superior plasterwork and 6-
panel doors. Left (lower) bay has a large fireplace, the lintel carried on
cyma-moulded stone brackets, and a cast-iron range. The house was one of 2
apprentice houses built by Colbeck Ellis and Co, who constructed the West
House Flour Mill between 1797 and 1803. It housed children brought from
workhouses in London who were apprenticed to the mill owners. The High
Apprentice House was probably closed in 1843 when the mill became bankrupt
and the building adapted for cottages, but it has remained in the ownership
of Leeds Corporation and is one property at the time of resurvey. Listed
partly for historical reasons. G Shutt, "Wharfedale Water Works", M Phil
Univ Leeds, 1979; H E Bogg, Higher Wharfeland, 1904, pp 45-49.
Listing NGR: SE1689956054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331431
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bogg, E, Higher Wharfedale, (1904), 45-49
Shutt, G, Wharfedale Water Works, (1979)
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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