Mount Snever Observatory
MOUNT SNEVER OBSERVATORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191328
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Snever Observatory
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT SNEVER OBSERVATORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191328
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Snever Observatory
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT SNEVER OBSERVATORY
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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:
- MOUNT SNEVER OBSERVATORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oldstead
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE5371480465
Details
SE 58 SW
8/46
OLDSTEAD
MOUNT SNEVER
Mount Snever Observatory
II
Observatory. 1838. J. Dodd builder for John Wormald. Limestone ashlar.
Single cell with platform to front. c35ft in height. 9-course coped wall,
with evidence for former staircase at right, to platform. Board door
beneath massive stone lintel flanked by crude buttresses. Inscription above
reads:
Here hills and waving groves a scene display
And part admit and part exclude the day
See rich industry smiling on the plains
And peace and plenty tell VICTORIA reigns!
Happy the MAN who to these shades retires
Whom NATURE charms and whom the muse inspires
Who wandering thoughtful in this silent wood
Attends the duties of the wise and good
To observe a mean, be to himself a friend
To follow NATURE and regard his end.
3-light fixed window above the evidence for blocking of former tall single-
light window. Wooden parapet. Coped angle turrets. Inscription to rear
facade:
John Wormald
In the first year of the reign of
Queen Victoria
Caused this observatory to be erected
J Dodds Builder
Disused at time of resurvey.
Listing NGR: SE5371480465
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 328522
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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