Wykeham Abbey
WYKEHAM ABBEY, BACK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173210
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wykeham Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- WYKEHAM ABBEY, BACK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173210
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Wykeham Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYKEHAM ABBEY, BACK LANE
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:
- WYKEHAM ABBEY, BACK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wykeham
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 96182 81914
Details
SE 98 SE WYKEHAM BACK LANE (east side, off)
8/123 Wykeham Abbey 13.12.51 GV II*
Incorrectly shown on Ordnance Survey map as Hudgin Lane. Country house. Mid C18; extended 1835 on datestone; loggia added 1839; further alteration and extension 1904. For the Langley family. Dressed sandstone and reused tooled medieval sandstone; ashlar quoins and dressings; timber eaves band; Westmorland slate roof. Entrance front: C18 front of 3 storeys, 6 bays, the 4 centre bays pedimented and quoined and breaking forward; flanked by 3- storey, 2-bay C19 extension wings and further 2-storey, 3-bay ranges. Single-storey, 5-bay service wings project to left and right, joined to the main front and ranges by 2-storey link bays. Extension wings have rusticated pilasters. Single-storey canted porch added to centre of C18 front contains half-glazed double doors beneath a patterned fanlight within a pedimented and rusticated Doric door-case. Ground-floor end bays to C18 front are formed as aedicules. Ground- and first-floor windows are 12-pane sashes, those to second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all in raised, keyed surrounds. Keyed oeil-de-boeuf to main pediment. Modillion cornice. Attached Doric colonnade to ground floor of 2-storey ranges, and projecting eaves cornice with plain parapet above. Service wing to left has 6-panel door with Gibbs surround to centre; both wings have triple-keyed window surround, and domed cupolas with wrought-iron weather-vanes. Coped gables to main roof, with end and centre left and right stacks. Half-hipped roofs to wings, all roofed separately. Garden front. 3-storey, 9-bay front arranged 2:1:3:1:2, with central 5-bay breakforward incorporating full- height 3-window bow; single-storey 4-bay wings added to left and right. Glazed doors to recessed bays. 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors, and unequal 9-pane sashes to second floor. All openings have plain keyed surrounds. Doric loggia to ground floor, dated 1839, carries first-floor balcony with balustrade and urns. Modillion cornice with plain parapet above. Extension wings have canted bays with radial-glazed sashes in raised round-arched surrounds. Plain parapet with urns above. Half-hexagonal roof. Left and right return fronts. Venetian windows to first and second floor, with an oculus to each gable end. Interior. Ground-floor centre room on garden side has Ionic fireplace with fluted column jambs and moulded frieze. Panelled ceiling of moulded plaster. Room to left has a screen of fluted Corinthian columns and a dentilled cornice extending around the room.
Listing NGR: SE9618281914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327443
- 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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