Grimston Garth
GRIMSTON GARTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215935
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Grimston Garth
- Statutory Address:
- GRIMSTON GARTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215935
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Grimston Garth
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRIMSTON GARTH
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:
- GRIMSTON GARTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Garton
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 28286 35100
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/02/2012
TA 23 NE
4/36
16.12.66
EAST GARTON
GRIMSTON
Grimston Garth
GV I
House. 1781-6, with service ranges added c1815. Further additions of c1860 were mainly removed during restoration in the 1980s. By John Carr for Thomas Grimston. Red brick, formerly colour-washed, with rubbed brick dressings; slate roof. Castle Gothick style. Triangular plan with central hexagon and round corner towers: the 2 added parallel service ranges, each terminating in a circular tower, run northwards from the original rear service range. Entrance elevation: 2 storeys, 4 bays 1:2:1 flanked by 3-storeyed turrets. 6-panel doors with trefoils and quatrefoils under pointed brick arches with hood-moulds to right and left: pointed sashes with intersecting glazing bars under hood-moulds with stops. First-floor band. Sashes with glazing bars under hood-moulds. Parapet band. Crenellated parapet. Similar fenestration and bands to turrets: second floor has triple lancets under hood-mould; crenellated parapet. Central hexagon, second floor, has 6-pane sashes with sills and hood-moulds under parapet band, crenellated parapet and pyramidal roof. Similar fenestration and architectural treatment to garden elevation and service wings. Interior: hexagonal dining room to ground floor has pilastered fire surround with blind ogee tracery over fireplace and a frieze of pointed arches interspersed with heraldic shields under an ornate cornice. The south-east turret contains a cut-string geometrical stair with balusters, in the form of clustered columns, carrying a slender, moulded, wreathed, handrail. The north turret in the eastern service range contains a tester bed which folds into a cupboard. The house is set in parkland retaining an icehouse, ha ha, walled kitchen garden, as well as a separately listed gatehouse and stable block.
Listing NGR: TA2828635100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 166496
- 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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