WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR

WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR, FOUNTAINS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173497
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR
Statutory Address:: WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR, FOUNTAINS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1173497
Date first listed:: 11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:: WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR
Statutory Address 1:: WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR, FOUNTAINS LANE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WEIR ON RIVER SKELL APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES WEST OF THE RESERVOIR, FOUNTAINS LANE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains
National Grid Reference:: SE2786568362

Details

SE 2768 9/41

LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS FOUNTAINS LANE (east side, off) Weir on River Skell approximately 120 metres west of the Reservoir

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Weir. Possibly medieval for the monks of Fountains Abbey and rebuilt after 1768 for William Aislabie. Gritstone. Approximately 1.5 metres high and 4 metres wide. Sloping ramp of coursed stones, overhanging coping of massive blocks. Sluice on north bank of river, partly collapsed. The north bank of the Skell was covered by orchards belonging to Fountains Abbey (qv) and until 1768 the boundary with Studley Royal was east of the weir, on the line of the Abbey precinct wall.

Listing NGR: SE2786568362

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Legacy System number:: 331043
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.