Westerdale Hall
WESTERDALE HALL, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179138
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Westerdale Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WESTERDALE HALL, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179138
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Westerdale Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTERDALE HALL, MAIN STREET
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:
- WESTERDALE HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westerdale
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 66251 06020
Details
NZ 60 NE WESTERDALE MAIN STREET Westerdale West side (off)
6/146 Westerdale Hall
II
House, now Youth Hostel. Shooting-box for the Duncombe family, before 1874. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Lakeland slate and lead roofs. Baronial Tudor style. Square plan with canted south-eastern extensions enclosing service courtyard.
Very irregular elevations ranging in height from 1 to 5 storeys, with even higher tower stair turret. Crow-stepped gables. Stone- mullioned windows of varying sizes, some with transoms; window woodwork mostly replaced.
Entrance front 2 storeys and attics of varying heights, 3 irregular bays. Central open porch with Tudor arch and blank shield over. Tudor-arched inner door. At left the canted screen wall has another such door and to left of it an octagonal pavilion with tented lead roof. Right return has battered lower courses and some original leaded glazing in window heads. 3-bay garden front has gabled left bay with 2-storey square window projection, central stair window with armorial glass, and massive 5-storey battlemented tower at right.
Row of conjoined diagonal stacks above the left ridge and another row on the 2-storey service wing on south side of courtyard.
Pevsner, N. Riding p.384.
Listing NGR: NZ6625106020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328064
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 384
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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