Grassfield House Hotel
GRASSFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, RAMSGILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150595
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grassfield House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- GRASSFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, RAMSGILL ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-09-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/01245/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150595
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grassfield House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRASSFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, RAMSGILL 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:
- GRASSFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, RAMSGILL 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:
- SE 15218 65828
Details
BEWERLEY RAMSGILL ROAD SE 16 NE (west side)
3/16 Grassfield House Hotel
- II
House, now hotel. 1810. For Hanley Hutchinson. Ashlar, grey slate roof. 2-storey, 5-bay main block, the central 3 bays pedimented and breaking forward; 3 bays deep. Attached range to left adjoins rear of building, of 2 storeys and 2 bays with later 2-storey, l-bay addition to left. Wall attached to rear right continues to right, ramps down to gate piers and continues for approximately 10 metres. Main block: central glazed double door with fanlight in moulded architrave with imposts; flanking Doric columns support entablature, cornice and blocking course. Flanking windows, ground floor: 4-pane sashes with projecting sills and incised lintels. First floor: sashes with glazing bars, sill band to central 3 bays, lintels as ground floor. Rectangular recesses between ground and first-floor windows. Moulded eaves and pediment cornice. Hipped roof with paired stacks to bays 2 and 4. Attached range to left: two 16-pane sashes to ground floor, sashes with glazing bars above. Architectural details as main facade. Left bay not of special interest. Wall attached to right: 2 blind windows with rectangular panels above; moulded cornice and blocking course. To right: ramped wall of coursed squared rubble with flat coping; lean-to garden house attached to north side with 3 blocked round arched windows with keystones, gable coping and bulbous kneelers. Gate piers approximately 3 metres high: plinths, cornices and pyramidal finials. Wall continues for approximately 10 metres to right, ramped down once. Hanley Hutchinson was a leading figure in the Greenhow lead mining industry in the area. He leased the Cockhill-Sunside lead mines from the Yorke family and was a member of the provisional committee of the Yorkshire and Lancashire railway in the 1840's. He owned the Brigg House Rolling Mill where sheet lead and lead pipes were manufactured. W Grainge, Nidderdale, (1863), p 65. B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale (1967), pp 201, 295, 341.
Listing NGR: SE1521865828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1967), 201
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1967), 295
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1967), 341
Grainage, W, Nidderdale, (1863), 65
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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