CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS

CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1150922
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1150922
Date first listed:: 22-Aug-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS, THE GREEN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CRAKEHALL HALL AND GARDEN WALLS, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Crakehall
National Grid Reference:: SE 24515 90063

Details

CRAKEHALL THE GREEN SE 2490-2590 (east side) 7/35 Crakehall Hall and garden walls (formerly listed as 22.8.66 Crakenhall Hall (house, stables and walls)) GV II* House and garden walls. Early C18. Coursed squared stone, ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof. Symmetrical front. 3 storeys, 7 bays. Large 3-storey wing to rear. Ashlar plinth, chamfered quoins. 3 steps up to central half-glazed door and 3-pane overlight in late C18 stone Doric porch, 2 pairs of columns on plinths, fluted frieze, cornice and blocking course. All windows on first 2 floors are sashes with glazing bars, those to second floor are 6-pane sashes. All windows have moulded architraves with keystones, those to ground floor have continuous sill band. Moulded eaves band. Hipped roof. Ridge stacks to rear. To each side of house are brick quadrant walls, stone coped, ramped up at outer ends to plain stone piers, with domed tops. To centre of each wall is a 4-panel door, in rusticated stone architrave with double keystone. From the right- hand pier a high stone rubble wall with flat stone coping, forms a boundary to the east side of the green. Interior: entrance hall has dado rail with Vitruvian scroll motif. Doors to rooms on each side have eared architraves with pediments. Large open-well staircase with bulb and umbrella balusters. Venetian stair window with Ionic columns. The right-hand front room has Kent style overmantel with mirror surmounted by a broken pediment with shell motif to centre. Early C18 fielded panelling, dado rail and dentilled cornice.

Listing NGR: SE2451590063

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Legacy System number:: 332318
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.