Parcevall Hall
Parcevall Hall, BD23 6DE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157423
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Parcevall Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Parcevall Hall, BD23 6DE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157423
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Parcevall Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Parcevall Hall, BD23 6DE
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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:
- Parcevall Hall, BD23 6DE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Appletreewick
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 06891 61249
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 January 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 06 SE
3/20
APPLETREEWICK
SKYREHOLME
Parcevall Hall
(Formerly listed as Percevall Hall)
10.9.54
II*
House, now a retreat for Bradford Diocese. C16, C17 and early C20. Ashlar, coursed squared stone, graduated stone slate roof. C16 and C17 part of house, two storeys, six bays. To right of this is a two storey, five bay modern addition, to rear at right angles to house a long wing dated 1929, behind this parallel to the house another wing of 1929.
Original house: the left-hand bay is set back, gabled to left return. Between bays two and three a shallow flat-headed porch with two ball finials and a studded door in a chamfered surround. To left of porch a drainpipe with waterhead inscribed 1775. Porch is flanked by six-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with central major mullions and hoodmoulds. To right two three-light double-chamfered mullion windows with a one-light chamfered window between them. First floor. Bay two has six-light window similar to that below. Two bays to right of this have three-light double-chamfered mullioned windows, to right similar window of two lights. Right bay has three-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould. Bay two has gable with a stepped three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould. Shaped kneelers, stone coping. End stack to right, ridge stacks.
Additions to house in similar style with mullioned windows.
Interior: in the solar is a large inglenook fireplace with a chamfered segmental arch. Downstairs a fireplace dated 1671 with simple diamond shaped plasterwork above. Kitchen has large fireplace with a beehive oven. C17 panelling brought in from other buildings this century.
History: once a rest house for Fountains Abbey, later belonging to Bolton Priory. Purchased by Sir Wm Milner in 1928, who designed the additions. Given to the Walsingham Trust in 1960.
Country Life, October 25 1962, 'A New Role for a Wharfedale Hall', Bernard Wood pp 1039.
Listing NGR: SE0689161249
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 25 October, (1962), 1039
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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