SWINTON CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1167546
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: SWINTON CASTLE
Statutory Address:: SWINTON CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1167546
Date first listed:: 09-Aug-1966
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: SWINTON CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: SWINTON CASTLE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: SWINTON CASTLE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swinton with Warthermarske
National Grid Reference:: SE 21185 79724

Details

SE 27 NW SWINTON WITH WARTHERMARSKE SWINTON PARK

6/109 Swinton Castle (formerly listed as Swinton Park) 9.8.66 GV II*

Country house. Of several C18 and C19 builds with work by John Carr, James Wyatt, John Foss and Robert Lugar. Ashlar with graduated stone slate roofs. Plan: east range with north wing set back on right and south wing to rear left. 2 and 3 storeys. East front: early C18 in origin, 3 storeys, 5 bays, left-hand bay 2 storeys, octagonal towers to each end with castellated parapets. Bay 2 has 4-storey round tower in front of projecting bay and with porte-cochere with 1/2-glazed double door, round-headed sashes above, and machicolated embattled parapet. Bay 1 has tall 3-light mullioned window with round-headed sashes and hood-mould; bay 4 has similar window of 4- lights. First and second floors: bays 1 and 4 have 2-light mullioned windows with sashes, bays 3 and 5 have narrow 8-pane sashes. All windows have hood-moulds. Embattled parapets, hipped roofs. To right, set back, north wing: 3 storeys, 12 bays. Central 6-panel door with fanlight flanked by sashes with fanlights. Central 3 bays break forward with octagonal towers to each side. Round tower to right of block with embattled parapet. Sashes with glazing bars to either side in blind arcades. First floor: sashes with glazing bars. Second floor: band. Sashes with glazing bars and hood-moulds. Embattled parapet. Hipped roof, ridge stacks. Left return: central 3-storey portion of 9 bays, central 3 bays bowed, 2-storey single bay projecting on left and 2-storey, 3-bay end of east range projecting on right. Left- and right-hand projections have octagonal corner towers and mullioned sashes. Central portion has 24-pane sashes to ground-floor windows with unequally-hung 12-pane sashes to first floor, band and sashes with glazing bars to second floor. Embattled parapet. Interior: the south range has large drawing room by James Wyatt 1793 with fine neo-classical plasterwork and chimneypiece. More restrained rooms to either side also by Wyatt. First floor has panelled room by John Carr with full length fluted pilasters. Rear wing has a large late C19 open-well staircase of 3 storeys. For further details see J Cornforth, 'Swinton, Yorkshire, I, II, III', Country Life, April 7, 14 and 21, 1966 (pp 788-792, 871-875 and 943-948).

Listing NGR: SE2118579724

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Legacy System number:: 325101
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 21 April, (1966), 943-948
'Country Life' in 7 April, (1966), 788-792
'Country Life' in 14 April, (1966), 871-875
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

Legal

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