Yorke's Folly
YORKE'S FOLLY, NOUGHT BANK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187187
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yorke's Folly
- Statutory Address:
- YORKE'S FOLLY, NOUGHT BANK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1187187
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Yorke's Folly
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORKE'S FOLLY, NOUGHT BANK ROAD
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:
- YORKE'S FOLLY, NOUGHT BANK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bewerley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE1586063530
Details
SE 16 SE
8/13
BEWERLEY
NOUGHT BANK ROAD
(east side, off)
Yorke's Folly
II
Folly or landmark. Late C18 - early C19. For a member of the Yorke family.
Gritstone and ashlar. 2 shafts built to look like the ruin of an east
window or church crossing, with springers for arches and deeply-chamfered
quoins. Each shaft L-shaped on plan and approximately 15 metres high.
Originally a structure of 3 columns know as 'Three Stoups', one was blown
down in 1893. They were said to have been built when work was scarce in the
district and to have been a landmark 'for many generations' in 1894
(Speight). The Yorkes built the new hall at Bewerley in 1815-20 and it is
likely that this landmark was erected as part of the landscaping of the area
at that time. H Speight, Nidderdale, 1894, p 457.
Listing NGR: SE1586063530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331141
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Speight, H, Nidderdale, (1894), 457
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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