Swale Hall
SWALE HALL, SWALE HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179458
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Swale Hall
- Statutory Address:
- SWALE HALL, SWALE HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179458
- Date first listed:
- 04-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Swale Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWALE HALL, SWALE HALL LANE
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:
- SWALE HALL, SWALE HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grinton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0411698433
Details
SE 0498
23/50
4.9.52
GRINTON
SWALE HALL LANE
(north side)
Grinton
Swale Hall
II
Manor house. C17. Rendered rubble on boulder plinth, stone slate roof.
2-room central lobby-entry plan, with central rear stair turret, and
cross-wing on left projecting only to rear. 2 storeys, 3 first floor
windows. Central quoined doorway with moulded arris, triangular soffit
and pedimented hood to lintel. Double-chamfered mullioned windows under
birds-beak section drip moulds. On ground floor, 1 single-light window
to left, and 2 formerly 4-light windows flanking doorway. On first
floor, 2 formerly 4-light windows flanking a single-light window at
slightly lower level over doorway. On left, bay of cross-wing has
partly-blocked 4-light window on ground floor, pitching door under drip
mould on first floor. Upstanding kneelers and saddleback copings to
house overall. Central stack with classical cappings. Rear elevation
with, on ground floor, a 2-light casement window to left of turret, a
single-light window with stone surround in angle to left of turret, and
2-light mullioned window in turret; on first floor, 3 single-light
windows to left of turret, 1 in turret and 1 to right of turret. On
right, in gable-end of cross-wing, a 3-light window, now converted to
2 on each floor. Left return: large lateral stack to cross-wing. Right
return: 2-light window to both floors and gable. Interior: 2 back-to-
back fireplaces, both large, with straight heads, chamfered surrounds,
and birds-beak section string course above. Stone stairs in straight
flight in turret, now boarded over. The site of the medieval capital
messuage of Bridlington Priory's manor of West Grinton. The family
called Swale pretended to this manor after the Reformation. The house
was in tenements in C18. 'VCH North Riding', 1.
Listing NGR: SE0411698433
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321988
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914)
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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