Yarnbury House
YARNBURY HOUSE, OLD MOOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166872
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Yarnbury House
- Statutory Address:
- YARNBURY HOUSE, OLD MOOR LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166872
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Yarnbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YARNBURY HOUSE, OLD MOOR LANE
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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:
- YARNBURY HOUSE, OLD MOOR LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grassington
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 01469 65904
Details
GRASSINGTON OLD MOOR LANE SE 06 NW (west side) Yarnbury 2/27 Yarnbury House 23.3.82 GV II House and office, now house. Probably late C18 with early-mid C19 extension and alteration. Grey gritstone rubble, grey slate roof. 2- storey, 2-bay original house defined by quoins, extended by 1 bay to left and with an added bay (former cottage?) to left again. Central porch added mid C20, the door surround reset from the body of the house; C20 panelled door with fanlight in plain stone surround with keystone. Fenestration: C20 small-pane frames throughout; slightly projecting plain stone surrounds, one to each floor left of entrance, 2 to right. Larger small-paned window above the entrance. The walling has evidence of a blocked doorway far left and between the right-hand windows both to ground and first floors. Stone gutter brackets, plain kneelers, gable copings; 4 ridge stacks: at the ends of original building, to left of the present entrance bay, and to left of the windows to far left. The 2 right-hand bays may have been built for agricultural or industrial purposes in the C18; the lead mining industry on Grassington Moor underwent considerable changes from 1779 when Cornelius Flint, the Duke of Devonshire's Mineral Agent, undertook the construction of new drainage systems. Either Flint or his local agent lived at Yarnbury House and had offices in the building. In 1818 John Taylor became the Duke's Chief Agent and he appointed Captain Larratt from Cornwall to be the local agent. The extensions to the house possibly date fron this period of expansion in the mining industry and the large window above the entrance is said to have lit the office where the agent did business with the miners. The period 1828-33 was another time of great expansion in construction (e.g. Barratt's Incline, q.v.) A. Raistrick, Lead Mining in the Mid Pennines, 1973, pl10.
Listing NGR: SE0146965904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324780
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Raistrick, A, Lead Mining in the Mid Pennines, (1973), 110
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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