STABLES, COACH HOUSES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS TO NORTH AND EAST OF COURTYARD AT RIPLEY CASTLE WITH SOUTH WALL TO GATE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1174114
Date first listed:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: STABLES, COACH HOUSES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS TO NORTH AND EAST OF COURTYARD AT RIPLEY CASTLE WITH SOUTH WALL TO GATE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STABLES, COACH HOUSES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS TO NORTH AND EAST OF COURTYARD AT RIPLEY CASTLE WITH SOUTH WALL TO GATE HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1174114
Date first listed:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: STABLES, COACH HOUSES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS TO NORTH AND EAST OF COURTYARD AT RIPLEY CASTLE WITH SOUTH WALL TO GATE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STABLES, COACH HOUSES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS TO NORTH AND EAST OF COURTYARD AT RIPLEY CASTLE WITH SOUTH WALL TO GATE HOUSE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: STABLES, COACH HOUSES AND SERVICE BUILDINGS TO NORTH AND EAST OF COURTYARD AT RIPLEY CASTLE WITH SOUTH WALL TO GATE HOUSE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ripley
National Grid Reference:: SE 28272 60595

Details

RIPLEY RIPLEY PARK SE 2860-2960 8/100 Stables, coach-houses and service buildings to north and east of courtyard at Ripley Castle with south wall to gate house

GV II*

Stables, coach-houses and service buildings, now storerooms and shops. Begun 1786 by William Belwood for Sir John Ingilby. Coursed squared gritstone, grey slate roof. The north range linked to the north-east service wing of the castle is a long 2-storey, 15-bay block, the end bays and central canted 3 bays forming squat crenellated towers. The east range has a central gateway flanked by 2-storey square towers which are linked by lower 2-storey, 5-bay ranges to 2-storey end towers. In Gothick style. North range: the central 3 bays project and each has paired 6-panel board doors with cast-iron openwork panels in a 4-centred arch with projecting surround, the central doors surmounted by an ogee panel and shield. All the windows have shallow pointed Gothick arches; the central. window, first floor, is of 4 lights and is flanked by 3-light windows all with interlaced glazing bars and square hoodmoulds surmounted by cruciform recesses. Projecting first-floor band carried at first-floor level of both north and east ranges. Hipped roof, crenellated stack left. Flanking ranges have Y- tracery windows to ground and first floors, several blind. The left range has a 6-panel pointed arched door to bay 4 and a blind recess to bay 6. A similar door to bay 2 of the right range; the ground-floor windows have ventilators in the lower half. Wooden gutter brackets. The outer towers have a door and window in the same style to ground floor and a 4-light intersecting tracery window with hoodmould above,plus 2 cruciform recesses below the eaves. Rear: the central block is of 3 storeys; a 6-panel door to left and 2 garage doors centre and right; 4 blind windows to first and second floors, the upper row with segmental arches. The flanking ranges have a board door left, a blocked door right and 12- and 16-pane sashes. The 2-bay tower attached to the castle has no crenellation on the rear face; the walling is a continuation of the rear wall of the castle (qv). Projecting eaves bands, stone gutter brackets. The structure unstable at time of resurvey; interior not inspected. East range, from courtyard: the central double gates are under a pointed arch with crenellated parapet. Ground floor with pointed openings, 2 to each tower, of which one is blind. Left tower with Y-tracery window to other opening and right tower with inserted glazed door. Left linking range with alternating blind and traceried openings. All first-floor windows blind, painted with Y-tracery. Tower windows larger and with hoodmoulds. Central towers with clockfaces below crenellated parapets. Rear: the towers are linked by lean-to cart- sheds, now shops, left, and botheys or byres, now cafe and shops to right. The south tower contains an inserted cast-iron header tank supported on internal buttresses. Linking wall from south tower to gatehouse (qv): approximately 3 metres high and crenellated. A short length from the tower eastwards is similar. Although they were begun in 1786 the southern half of the eastern range is not shown on an estate plan of 1807. J Low, 'William Belwood, Architect and Surveyor', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 56, 1984, p 151.

Listing NGR: SE2826460590

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Legacy System number:: 331606
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Yorkshire Archaeological Journal' in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, , Vol. 56, (1984), 151
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.