Bewerley Old Hall
BEWERLEY OLD HALL, GLASSHOUSES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1150590
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bewerley Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BEWERLEY OLD HALL, GLASSHOUSES ROAD
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- Date:
- 2006-06-09
- Reference:
- IOE01/14646/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1150590
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bewerley Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEWERLEY OLD HALL, GLASSHOUSES 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:
- BEWERLEY OLD HALL, GLASSHOUSES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bewerley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1598564701
Details
BEWERLEY GLASSHOUSES ROAD
SE 16 SE (north side)
8/4 Bewerley Old Hall
23.4.52
GV II *
House. Late C16 - early C17, probably for a member of the Darnbrooke
family. Coursed square gritstone and ashlar, graduated stone slate roof. 2
storeys, 3 bays with additional 2-storey porch (probably early C18). Porch:
the ground floor open and supported by side walls and 2 Tuscan columns. The
front of the side walls cut to match the free-standing columns, that to
right not finished; inserted doorway right return. Above: 2-light recessed-
chamfered mullion window in projecting stone surround. This window matched
by one in left and right returns. Moulded string course at first floor
level; hipped roof. House: within porch, board door in deeply-chamfered
quoined surround with flattened 4-centred arch. Flanking porch, ground and
first floors: 6-light recessed-chamfered mullion windows with central king
mullions under hoodmoulds. Shaped kneelers, gable copings, end stacks. 2-
storey, 2-bay addition to right, not of special interest. Interior: porch
ceiling has fine plaster figure in relief: a female in C17 costume with long
flowing hair and holding a book and ? chalice. House interior not inspected
at resurvey but reported in old list to contain timber-framed and panelled
internal walls, fine plasterwork and'original fireplaces. The former manor
house of Bewerley passed to the Inman family in 1681 and in 1774 the estate
passed to John Yorke. The new hall (demolished 1925) was built in 1815 and
the Old Hall became the gardeners house, with 2 large walled gardens on the
east side. The Elizabethan formal garden of box hedges was removed c1975.
H Speight, Nidderdale (1894) p 283.
Listing NGR: SE1598564701
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331132
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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