Rookhurst
ROOKHURST, WEST END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166919
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rookhurst
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKHURST, WEST END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166919
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rookhurst
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKHURST, WEST END
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:
- ROOKHURST, WEST END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawes
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 86831 89277
Details
HAWES WEST END, Gayle SD 88 NE 20/137 Rookhurst
GV II House, now hotel. Part dated 1734, part c1870. The later part for Henry Whaley, barrister. 3 and 2 storeys, 3:1 first-floor windows. Quoins. Rubble, stone slate roof to left 3 bays, Westmorland slate roof on right. Quoins. Older range, to left, ground floor: two 2-light mullion windows with drip-moulds; 2-light chamfered mullion window with drip-mould. First floor: 2-light windows with architraves and chamfered mullions, the left 2 with drip-moulds. Second floor: 3 single-light 4-pane casement windows in architraves. End stack to left. C19 range: projecting 2-storey porch with board door with ornamental hinges in doorway with carved border, and armorial shield above; on first floor a 6-light bay window with trefoil tracery and transoms, pyramidal roof. To right, single-light trefoil tracery window with label on ground floor, blank wall above. Eaves stacks flanking porch. Right return: 2-storey bay window as before below gable with bargeboards. C18 date on a hidden doorway (Rev J Alderson).
Listing NGR: SD8683189277
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323160
- 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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