Stables, Coach Houses and Service Buildings to North and East of Courtyard at Ripley Castle With South Wall to Gate House
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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Overview
- 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
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:
- 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
SE 2860-2960
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RIPLEY
RIPLEY PARK
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: SE2827260595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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,
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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