Carr Head Hall
CARR HEAD HALL, CARR HEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157455
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Carr Head Hall
- Statutory Address:
- CARR HEAD HALL, CARR HEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1157455
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Carr Head Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARR HEAD HALL, CARR HEAD 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:
- CARR HEAD HALL, CARR HEAD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cowling
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9750644282
Details
SD 94 SE
5/35
10.9.54
COWLING
CARR HEAD ROAD
Carr Head Hall
(formerly listed as Carr Head)
GV
II*
Mansion, probably mid C18 enlarged later C18, then refurbished 1851 and slightly
altered early C20. Hammer dressed stone and hipped slate roof, with some ashlar
work. Two storeys. The oldest part appears to be the south front, now the garden
front, of 5 bays. This has a plinth and plat band, cornice and rusticated quoins.
The tall windows have architraves and are sashed with all glazing bars. The central
doorway has a Doric doorcase with pilasters, pediment, and rosettes between
triglyphs. The east front is of 5 bays and is similarly detailed except that the
windows have plain stone surrounds, and the central 3 bays are canted out. The north
front, probably early C20, has blocked surrounds to the windows and a Doric porch,
distyle in antis.
Inside 3 periods may be distinguished. To the later C18 probably belong the former
hall, with doors in the style of Adam, and the central staircase, which has a small
domed skylight decorated with husks. The cantilevered stone stair has an ornamental
iron balustrade. The remaining rooms of the ground floor have simple classical
decoration probably dating from 1851. On the first floor all 3 rooms of the south
front retain lavish decoration from the first build. The central lobby has a small
but rich plaster ceiling in the style of the 1730s above an Ionic modillion cornice.
This has an eagle in central roundel and a cove decorated with Roman busts, cherubs,
trumpets and palm leaves. The south-east bedroom has a cornice supported by 2
Corinthian pilasters either side of the chimneypiece, which has a scrolled and eared
overmantel with an overhanging garland. The south-west bedroom has a similar
arrangement, but the detail is Doric, with bucrania in the frieze. The overmantel is
shouldered, flanked by husks and surmounted by a shell which harbours another ox
skull.
The house thus preserves in part a small mansion of mid C18 of considerable interest.
Listing NGR: SD9750644282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323561
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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