Thirsk Hall
THIRSK HALL, KIRKGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151319
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Thirsk Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THIRSK HALL, KIRKGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151319
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Thirsk Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THIRSK HALL, KIRKGATE
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:
- THIRSK HALL, KIRKGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thirsk
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 42732 82253
Details
SE 4282 THIRSK KIRKGATE 6/56 (west side) 1.5.52 Thirsk Hall GV II*
Manor House. 1720. In 1770 John Carr added the top storey and side wings. Rainwater heads dated 1771. Reddish-brown local brick with stone dressings including chamfered quoins, bands at floor levels (the uppermost band has recently been removed) and cornice. Shallow hipped slate roof. To side wings, a low parapet. Central block 3 storeys, 5 bays. 2 storey side wings of 3 bays, slightly recessed. Later and lower 2 storey extension to south, set back. Central entrance approached by a flight of 6 stone steps. Wooden doorcase of c1770 with a moulded architrave and 2 consoles supporting a pediment which breaks through the 1st floor band. Panelled door with patterned radial fanlight. Sash windows with glazing bars in flush moulded cases with gauged flat brick arches and cills. The garden front has an early C19 cast iron verandah. Interior: to the right of the entrance a room decorated in the style of 1730-40 with a beamed ceiling with Greek Key motif which recurrs on the overmantel and doorways with pulvinated bay-leaf friezes and dentilled cornices. The large ground floor room to the right wing by Carr has a very fine ceiling. The first floor rooms largely retain their C18 fireplaces and cornices. Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1966, p366. V.C.H., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1923, p57 ff.
Listing NGR: SE4273382255
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333296
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1923), 57
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 366
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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