NAPPA HALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1157398
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: NAPPA HALL
Statutory Address:: NAPPA HALL

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Date:: 2007-09-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1157398
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: NAPPA HALL
Statutory Address 1:: NAPPA HALL

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:: NAPPA HALL

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Askrigg
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SD9657990802

Details

SD 99 SE 9/27 16.1.52

ASKRIGG NAPPA Nappa Hall

GV I

Fortified manor house. 1459, with C17 wing. For James Metcalfe. Rubble, stone slate roof. Single-storey central hall flanked by 4-storey western and 2-storey eastern towers, with south-east wing projecting forward at right angles from eastern tower, and entrance porch in angle so formed. Quoins. Porch: pointed arch with continuous hollow-chamfered moulding with label. A single-light chamfered window on each return. Parapet. Pointed- arched inner doorway with continuous hollow-chamfered moulding and leaved 6-panel door. To left, 2 cross-windows with cinque-cusped pointed lights, hood-moulds with headstops, quarry panes and iron bars. Parapet. West tower, main defensible unit: windows with cinque-cusped pointed lights under hood-moulds, those to ground, first and third floors with headstops, quarry panes and iron bars. Ground floor: 3-light window; to right, light vent to spiral staircase from ground to first floor. First floor: 2-light window, light vent to right. Second floor: single light. Third floor: single light. Crenellated parapet. Head of stair turret in south-east corner. East: kitchen and service wing: sash window on first floor, crenellated parapet. Rear elevation east tower: projecting chimney stack. Left return of west tower: board door in C19 ashlar sandstone chamfered rusticated quoined surround with pointed arch with keystone and springers. On each floor, a cinque-cusped single-light window in chamfered surround. Slightly- projecting chimney stack on ground and first floors. String. Gargoyle. Right return of east tower: to basement, 2 lattice windows in chamfered openings, and on right 2 windows under wide relieving arch. Ground floor: 4 sash windows with glazing bars in sandstone ashlar surrounds with interrupted jambs. First floor: 2 similar windows. In centre, projection of buttress of garderobe. Corbelled fireplace or garderobe to left on first floor. Projecting turret in south-east corner. West elevation of south- east range: central studded board door in quoined surround with segmental- arched head. On ground floor on either side, a 3-light double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould, and 16-pane sashes above on first floor. Double gable with lead rainwater head between cast with " T M JULY, 1747 (Thomas Metcalfe, d1754). Rear elevation of south-east range: on each floor a single-light window in chamfered, quoined surround. The building has numerous lead rainwater pipes and fluted hopper heads. Interior, west tower: stone newel staircase from ground floor to roof. Wave-moulded cross-beams supported on stone corbels, with remains of medieval joists. In first-floor chamber, fragment of plasterwork frieze, chamfered fireplace and chamfered doorway leading to rear room with stone chute in wall leading to external gargoyle. Hall: segmental arched fireplace and doorway to west tower. East tower: late C18 - early C19 cantilevered dog-leg staircase with hollow-moulded soffits to treads. Probably the finest and least-spoilt fortified manor house in the north of England. For centuries belonged to the Metcalfes, one of the most important Wensleydale families. Described by Leland as a "very goodly House". Hartley M and Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village (1979). VCH i, pp 204-5, 208.

Listing NGR: SD9657990802

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Legacy System number:: 323049
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village, (1979)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 204-5,208

Legal

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