Swarcliffe Hall Now Grosvenor House School
SWARCLIFFE HALL NOW GROSVENOR HOUSE SCHOOL, LACKON BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150558
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swarcliffe Hall Now Grosvenor House School
- Statutory Address:
- SWARCLIFFE HALL NOW GROSVENOR HOUSE SCHOOL, LACKON BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150558
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Swarcliffe Hall Now Grosvenor House School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWARCLIFFE HALL NOW GROSVENOR HOUSE SCHOOL, LACKON BANK
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:
- SWARCLIFFE HALL NOW GROSVENOR HOUSE SCHOOL, LACKON BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Birstwith
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 23546 59407
Details
BIRSTWITH LACKON BANK SE 25 NW (west side, off)
14/26 Swarcliffe Hall, now Grosvenor House School
GV II
Country house (Swarcliffe Hall) now school. 1848-50 by Major Rhode Hawkins for John Greenwood of Knowle near Keighley, enlarged 1866-67. Coursed squared gritstone and ashlar, graduated grey slate roofs. Original square house of 2 storeys and 3 bays, facing east, with larger additional wing attached to north with, to rear, a 4-storey tower which in turn has a lower 2-storey service wing attached to north. In a Jacobethan style: Tudor arch and hoodmould to main door in original range, bay 2, flanked by projecting gabled wings with oriel and mullion-and-transom windows with hoodmoulds; continuous dripmoulds, gable copings, ball finials and tall chimneys with 1, 2 and 3 flues. Addition, projecting forward on right, in same style. Rear, west courtyard: date 1850 carved above entrance to original range. Right return: tower with corner pinnacles and a turret. Interior: original reception rooms remain: rear hall with elaborately carved wooden fire surround in Jacobean style, and panelled plaster ceiling; staircase rising from hall has square-section balusters linked by arches; south-east living room has marble fireplaces and patterned tiles. J G Greenwood was a cotton spinner at Keighley and, having bought the Wreaks Mill, Birstwith, in 1805 became a major landowner in the area. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale, 1967, p 227.
Listing NGR: SE2354659407
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331154
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1967), 227
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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