Escrick Park
QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167878
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Escrick Park
- Statutory Address:
- QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167878
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Escrick Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU
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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:
- QUEEN MARGARET'S SCHOOL, MAIN STREET, ESCRICK, YORK, YO19 6EU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Escrick
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 63191 42283
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/01/2018
SE 64 SW
2/18
ESCRICK
MAIN STREET
Queen Margaret's School
Escrick Park
(Formerly listed as Escrick Park, ESCRICK PARK ESTATE, ESCRICK)
25.10.51
GV
II*
Small country house, now school. Main block of c1680-1690 for Henry Thompson, with alterations and additions of 1758 (1758 on rainwater head) and range to rear of c1765 by John Carr for Beilby Thompson and later additions and alterations including mid C19 wings, and with C20 additions of no particular interest.
Main block and wings: cement rendered with ashlar dressings, with Carr range to rear of pinkish-brown brick with red brick and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof.
Main block of three storeys and seven bays with single-storey, two-bay extension to right forming side entrance and single-storey, singe-bay extension to left forming loggia and library. Wings are set back to rear, that to right has block of two storeys and three bays, that to left of two storeys, four bays. C19 entrance to right side aportico of four Ionic columns supporting frieze, cornice and balustrade. Within a six-panel double-door.
Main range: ground floor has mainly full-height openings with C20 casements, that to left extension is blind and that to right a tripartite window with two-pane sashes. First floor band. Single-storey ranges surmounted by balustrades, balusters to left missing. First floor has 12-pane sashes. Second floor band. Attic storey has six-pane sashes. All openings in architraves. Moulded modillion cornice, frieze, and balustrade with alternate panels and groups of six balusters. Decorative urns to corners. Concealed hipped roof. Two lead rainwater heads inscribed 'BT 1758' for Beilby Thompson. Carr range to rear has canted bays. Mainly 12-pane sashes with ashlar sills and flat arches of red gauged brick. Early C20 infill between bays.
Interior includes mid C18 imperial staircase with rod on carved vase balusters and wreathed handrail. Moulded ceiling with medallion heads of Democritus, Heraclitus, Hippocrates and Socrates to corners and panels containing naturalistic motifs, surrounded by modillion and fleurette cornice. Other half of ceiling destroyed in flood. Other good cornices. Former dining room now headmaster's study remodelled by Carr and has Neo-classical ceiling, frieze, cornice and panelling. Late C18 fireplace in yellow and white marble probably by John Fisher of York. Library remodelled c1830 has fitted bookcases, gilded ceiling and decorative cornices, probably by Edward Blore.
Now Queen Margaret's School.
Pevsner N. Yorkshire, York and the East Riding, 1978, pp 224-5.
York Georgian Society, The Works in Architecture of John Carr, 1973, p11.
Essay by Titus Forbes-Adam.
Listing NGR: SE6319142283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 224-5
York Georgian Society in York Georgian Society, (1973), 11
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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