Old Hall
OLD HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179924
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hall
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1179924
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HALL
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:
- OLD HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thoralby
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 99516 86594
Details
THORALBY TOWN HEAD SD 98 NE 1/127 Old Hall (formerly listed as Town Head) 25.3.69 - II*
Manor house, now house. Dated 1641. Rubble, stone slate roofs. Double- depth plan, 2 storeys, 1:1:1 bays. Quoins. Central 2-storey gabled porch: quoins, one to right with graffiti "AB" and "IW"; 6-panel door with L hinges in ashlar chamfered quoined surround with wave moulding on arris.and graffito "FW" on right jamb, Tudor-arched head with letters "I" and "W" in spandrels and on lintel recessed panel with raised characters "ANO DOM 1641" and decorative motifs, hoodmould; first-floor 2-light double-chamfered mullion window, the inner chamfer hollow; ovolo-shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping with obelisk finials; on left return, ground-floor double- chamfered single-light window. Inside porch: flag floor; left window has Tudor-arched head; inner door of 6 fielded panels and butterfly hinges in stop-chamfered Tudor-arched ashlar surround with interrupted jambs. First bay: ground-floor C20 three-light double-chamfered mullion window; first- floor double-chamfered single-light window. Third bay: ground-floor 4-light mullion window; first-floor 3-light mullion window, both double-chamfered and with hollow inner chamfer, and with masons marks to that on the first floor. Ovolo-shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping with obelisk finials; corniced ashlar end stacks. Left return: on ground floor, 5-light hollow- moulded chamfered mullion window and 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with central king mullion, partly C20, the 2 joined by continuous hoodmould; on first floor, two 5-light hollow-moulded chamfered mullion windows, each with hoodmould; two gables, each with hollow-chamfered single-light window with stanchion; ovolo kneelers, smaller at central valley, moulded ashlar coping with obelisk finials, corniced ashlar gable stacks. Right return: on ground floor, chamfered fire window and 2-light hollow-chamfered mullion window to left; board door in inserted opening, and 3-light chamfered mullion window to right; on first floor, 2-light double-chamfered mullion window to left, 3-light hollow-chamfered mullion window to right; 2 gables with ovolo kneelers in centre and with bird's mouth profile to right, moulded ashlar coping to left and slab coping to right, corniced ashlar gable stacks. Interior: in ground-floor room to left, ashlar fireplace with stopped moulded arris and Tudor-arched head with rosettes in spandrels and with door of 6 fielded panels in chamfered surround to its right; in partition wall, paired doorways, chamfered, still with iron crooks and snecks, which opened different ways, one perhaps to former spiral staircase. In kitchen, to right, inglenook fireplace with stop-chamfered segmental arch with masons' marks and fire window in rear wall; chamfered beams and joists, some of latter moulded. Several windows have masons' marks, which correspond with those at Dale Foot (qv) in Bishopdale. Some oak butt- jointed floor boards on first floor. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 112.
Listing NGR: SD9951686594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322610
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 112, ()
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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