Nun Appleton Hall

Nun Appleton Hall, Nun Appleton Hall Estate

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1167924
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:
Nun Appleton Hall
Statutory Address:
Nun Appleton Hall, Nun Appleton Hall Estate

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1167924
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1952
List Entry Name:
Nun Appleton Hall
Statutory Address 1:
Nun Appleton Hall, Nun Appleton Hall Estate

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Nun Appleton Hall, Nun Appleton Hall Estate

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Appleton Roebuck
National Grid Reference:
SE 55629 39908

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 January 2024 to remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards.

SE 53 NE
9/16

APPLETON ROEBUCK
NUN APPLETON HALL ESTATE
Nun Appleton Hall

4.7.52

II
Small country house. Late C17 for Thomas first Lord Fairfax with later additions and alterations of c1710 for the Milners and of 1920 including wing and tower to right and entrance porch, these latter of no special interest.

Reddish-orange brick with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Rectangular on plan. Three storeys, seven bays with central breakforward in two stages. Plinth. Quoins. Entrance in early C20 porch has double doors with overlight within pilastered surround with hood. Ground and first floor have twenty-pane, and second floor has fifteen-pane unequally-hung sashes all with moulded ashlar architraves, that to centre of first floor has ornamental vase balustrade with acanthus consoles supporting hood. Remains of first floor band. Moulded second floor band. Dentil and modillion cornice, hipped roof, side and front stacks.

Interior has six-fielded-panel doors, some moulded cornices, shutters to most windows, otherwise not fully inspected.

Listing NGR: SE5562939908

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
326400
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 382-3

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.

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