The Castle
THE CASTLE, LIMEKILN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161201
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Castle
- Statutory Address:
- THE CASTLE, LIMEKILN HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1161201
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CASTLE, LIMEKILN HILL
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:
- THE CASTLE, LIMEKILN HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sledmere
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 94930 64507
Details
SLEDMERE LIMEKILN HILL SE 96 SW (north-east side, off)
4/38 The Castle (formerly listed as Sledmere 20.9.66 Castle Farmhouse)
- II
House. c1790 with probably earlier origins and with later additions and alterations. By John Carr for Sir Christopher Sykes, 2nd Baronet. Pinkish- brown brick in English garden wall bond and magnesian limestone,with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate and ashphalt roof. Gothick style. Recessed 2-storey, single centre bay between 3-storey, single-bay octagonal towers with 2-storey, single-bay wings and with ranges to rear. Plinth with moulded ashlar copings. Central entrance. Tall pointed arch with cavetto- moulded hood with label stops. To sides of arch are round-headed niches. Within, a double board door with ashlar lintel and Gothick overlight with decorative glazing under pointed arch with cavetto-moulded hood. Modillion ashlar cornice. Battlements. Turrets, alike: to sides of ground floor are 2-traceried-light windows within pointed surrounds under cavetto-moulded hoods. First floor, centres have 3-rounded-light, straight-headed windows in double-chamfered surrounds under cavetto-moulded hoods with label stops. Ashlar band. To second floor sides have similar windows to ground floor. Cavetto-moulded cornice. Battlements. Outer bays, alike: ground floors with 2-traceried-light, pointed-headed windows under cavetto-moulded hoods. First floor has single round lights. Cavetto-moulded cornice. Battlements. Interior. Some original fireplaces. 6-fielded-panel doors. Built as an eye-catcher to Sledmere House (qv). Pevsner N, Yorkshire: York and The East Riding, 1978, p 346. John Popham, "Sir Christopher Sykes at Sledmere - 1", Country Life, 16 January 1986, pp 128-132.
Listing NGR: SE9493064507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167848
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 346
Country Life in 16 January, (1986), 128-132
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 22 Humberside,
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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