Chapel House
CHAPEL HOUSE, B6160
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173280
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel House
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, B6160
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173280
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, B6160
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:
- CHAPEL HOUSE, B6160
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Conistone with Kilnsey
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97565 66588
Details
SD 96 NE CONISTONE WITH KILNSEY B6160 (west side,off) Kilnsey
16/55 Chapel House
10.9.54
- II
Country house, now hotel. 1783 for John Tennant, with Cl7 remains and mid C20 additions and restoration. Coursed thin limestone blocks, ashlar dressings, graduated stone slate roof. 2-storey, 3-bay main range 3 bays deep, with a west wing containing earlier remains, converted to service rooms. Stressed quoins. Main range: central half-glazed door with radial glazed fanlight in shouldered architrave with triangular pediment. Flanking tripartite flat-faced mullion windows to both storeys, the central lights with glazing bar sashes flanked by 8-pane sashes. A sash with glazing bars above the door. All with slightly raised surrounds and projecting sills. Stone gutter brackets, shallow parapet, hipped roof and 2 corniced ridge stacks flanking the entrance. C20 addition to rear, not of special interest. Left return: central recessed bay with Venetian stair window to first floor. Right return: three tripartite windows to each floor, as front. Interior: a central hall flanked by principal rooms, that to left with a bolection-moulded stone fireplace and a moulded ceiling cornice. 6-panel doors. A staircase lit by the Venetian window at the end of the entrance hall has a cantilevered stone stair and fine column and vase balustrade with moulded handrail. West wing, south side: of 4 bays, bay 2 projecting and having restored C17 fenestration. 2 doors to bay 3, that to left dated 1768; a large 4-light mullion and transom window far right, the mullions flat-faced with a reeded surround. The house is named after the supposed site of a chapel belonging to Kilnsey Grange, part of the Fountains Abbey estate. The Tennant family came into posession of the estate in 1572, continuing so until 1900. The Vicar of Burnsall lived there from 1841-75. Yorkshire Vernacular Building Study Group, Report No. 956, 1983
Listing NGR: SD9756566588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324642
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 956, ()
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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