Friars Head

FRIARS HEAD, WINTERBURN LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1157656
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Friars Head
Statutory Address:
FRIARS HEAD, WINTERBURN LANE
Friars Head is a Tudor built fully intact Hall. Nestled in a quiet dales valley outside Gargrave.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1157656
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Friars Head
Statutory Address 1:
FRIARS HEAD, WINTERBURN LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FRIARS HEAD, WINTERBURN LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Flasby with Winterburn
National Park:
Yorkshire Dales
National Grid Reference:
SD 93207 57533

Details

SD 95 NW FLASBY WITH WINTERBURN WINTERBURN LANE (west side)

3/12 Friars Head

10.9.54

- II*

Large house c1670, possibly by Proctor family, with C19 and C20 alterations. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. Hall with 2 cross wings at rear. Gable end to street. Garden entrance front: 2 storeys, 4 projecting bays. Entrance porch in second bay has moulded surround and imposts, basket arch of 11 voussoirs; within porch is oak plank door with Tudor arch. Dripmould and sundial above with gnomon and moulded surround. 3 ground floor and 4 upper floor bay windows, all double chamfered mullioned of 6-lights with transoms, and transomed single lights to return of each bay; 6 pane casements and fixed lights. Dripmoulds to both floors. Gable to each bay has ogee headed tripartite blind window with mullions and shaped hood- mould. Ball finials to apex of gables and kneelers, those on left and right-hand of c1985. Left and right-hand gable end ridge stacks. Interior: front left-hand room (former kitchen) contains massive inglenook fireplace with chamfered surround and basket arch of 16 voussoirs. In front right-hand room (former parlour) is small fireplace with chamfered surround and flat arched lintel. C19 dog-leg staircase in angle between main block and right-hand rear wing. 3 late C17 door surrounds on upper floor landing have nicked ogees to lintels. Source: L Ambler, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (London, 1913) p70.

Listing NGR: SD9320757533

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
323950
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913), 70

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Friars Head

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