Arbour Hill House and Attached Screen Walls, Dovecote and Summer House
ARBOUR HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, DOVECOTE AND SUMMER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179725
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Arbour Hill House and Attached Screen Walls, Dovecote and Summer House
- Statutory Address:
- ARBOUR HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, DOVECOTE AND SUMMER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1179725
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Arbour Hill House and Attached Screen Walls, Dovecote and Summer House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARBOUR HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, DOVECOTE AND SUMMER HOUSE
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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:
- ARBOUR HILL HOUSE AND ATTACHED SCREEN WALLS, DOVECOTE AND SUMMER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hornby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 22283 92570
Details
SE 29 SW HORNBY HORNBY PARK
4/51 Arbour Hill House and attached screen walls, dovecote and summer-house 13.2.67
GV II
Farmhouse, now house, with attached screen walls, dovecote and summer-house. c1760. For Robert Conyers Darcy, Earl of Holderness, of Hornby Castle (qv). Sandstone ashlar, C20 concrete interlocking tile and pantile roofs. House: 2 storeys with 3-storey end pavilions; 1:1:3:1:1 bays, central 3 bays projecting as canted bay to front and rear. Plinth. Ground floor: the bays are treated as an arcade of round arches, with recessed blocking except for a door in first bay, a round-arched sash window with thick glazing bars in the fourth bay, a door below radial fanlight in the sixth bay and a C20 window in the seventh bay. Impost band. First floor: square window openings with flat arches, blind except for central 6-pane sash window. End pavilions each have a second-floor blind oculus. Eaves band, continued across pavilions as second-floor band. Pyramidal roofs to end pavilions; semi-hexagonal roofs to canted bays. C20 concrete interlocking tile roof. Central octagonal ridge chimney. Single-storey screen walls flanking house, each containing a doorway with plain surround. To left, 2-storey dovecote with ground-floor board door in plain surround with keyed lintel, first- floor band, first-floor projecting ledges for birds to alight on and pyramidal roof. To right, 2-storey summer-house with first-floor band and pyramidal roof. Rear:house, ground floor: round arcade with recessed blocking, round-arched sash windows with glazing bars on first, sixth and seventh bays and part-glazed door below fanlight in fourth bay, the rest blind. First floor: unequally-hung 12-pane sash windows in first, second, fourth, sixth and seventh bays. Second-floor oculi in end pavilions. Rear, summer-house and dovecote: a blind oculus set into first-floor band. Dovecote, left return: oculus set into band; right return: board door in plain surround with keyed lintel on ground floor to right; first-floor doorway above. Summer-house, left return: 2 doorways with plain surrounds and keyed lintels on ground floor, part-blocked to left, with part-glazed door to right; right return: blind oculus set into band. Interior, house: round arches in walls of ground-floor front room in canted bay; in sixth bay an C18 open well staircase with stick balusters. The house is of the same design as Street House, Ainderby Mires, which is in brick. Pevsner, Yorkshire, The North Riding (1966) p 193.
Listing NGR: SE2228392570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322444
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 193
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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