Kirkbridge House, Stanwick Old Hall and Attached Gate Piers
KIRKBRIDGE HOUSE, STANWICK OLD HALL AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167299
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkbridge House, Stanwick Old Hall and Attached Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- KIRKBRIDGE HOUSE, STANWICK OLD HALL AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167299
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Kirkbridge House, Stanwick Old Hall and Attached Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- KIRKBRIDGE HOUSE, STANWICK OLD HALL AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS
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:
- KIRKBRIDGE HOUSE, STANWICK OLD HALL AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stanwick St. John
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18589 11934
Details
STANWICK ST JOHN STANWICK NZ 11 SE 3/188 Kirkridge House, Stanwick Old Hall and 4.2.69 attached gate piers
GV II
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings, and attached gate piers. Mid-late C17 with early C18 alterations. For the Smithson family. Rubble with some ashlar dressings, stone slate roofs. U-shaped plan, with main range of 2 storeys and loft, and lower wings to rear. South elevation: 2:1:4:2 first-floor windows. Quoins. First- and second-floor string courses. From left: first and second bays have sash windows with glazing bars and exposed sash boxes in C18 ashlar architraves; third bay has on each floor a cross window in architrave, and on the ground floor a C17 door in quoined ashlar surround with moulded arris; fourth-seventh bays inclusive have chamfered cross windows, 3 on ground floor and 4 on first floor, with a C20 panelled door on ground floor to right; eighth and ninth bays as first and second. 4 full dormers with kneelers. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Corniced ashlar stacks at ends and between third and fourth bays. Rear: to left, 6-panel door in quoined ashlar surround with moulded arris, renewed lintel with triangular soffit and hoodmould; 3-light chamfered mullion window with hoodmould to right; on first floor similar window above door, C20 casement window with hoodmould to right and single-light window to far right on each floor. Central full dormer with pierced kneelers. Both wings have chamfered rusticated quoins, shaped kneelers and ashlar coping to gables. East wing has blocked doorway to left, 2-light chamfered mullion window, and 2 single-light chamfered windows with hoodmoulds in gable. West wing of 2 builds, with M roof; eastern half has ashlar architrave to blocked window with 2 stanchions to right, chamfered single-light window with hoodmould to left and above it a single-light window in architrave, and above that part of a hoodmould, and in gable, to right, chamfered single-light window with hoodmould, and chimney on gable; western half has two 2-light chamfered mullion windows on ground floor and corniced ashlar gable stack. Right return of east wing: 2 tall 2-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Left return of west wing: door of 3 vertical panels in chamfered rusticated quoined surround with lintel carved as if of voussoirs, flanked by C20 casement windows with hoodmoulds. Between rear wings: low wall with 3 gate piers; 2 in centre are square in plan, chamfered rusticated quoined, with chamfered bases, cornices, caps and ball finials; one to right is square in plan, chamfered rusticated quoined, with cornice and acorn finial; all the quoined work lines through with and matches quoins on the wings. Left return of house: in gable, 2 single-light windows with ashlar architraves. Right return of house: blocked single-light window on first floor; in gable, 2 keyed vertical oval oculi with chamfered surrounds. Interior: in hall within door on north side, C17 oak open well staircase with thick turned balusters of symmetrical design, and with large knob finials to top and bottom of newel posts, the staircase disregarding the position of the windows; to west, splat baluster staircase; in ground-floor room to far left, early C18 bolection-moulded panelling and with round-arched cupboards flanking bolection fireplace. The house is shown behind the now demolished larger Stanwick Hall in Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook (Wakefield Historical Society, 1979, p 364).
Listing NGR: NZ1858411935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, I, Samuel Bucks Yorkshire Sketch Book, (1979), 364
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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