Cave Castle

CAVE CASTLE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281684
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:
Cave Castle
Statutory Address:
CAVE CASTLE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281684
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:
Cave Castle
Statutory Address 1:
CAVE CASTLE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CAVE CASTLE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
South Cave
National Grid Reference:
SE 91679 31064

Details

SOUTH CAVE THE PARK 5261 SE 93 SW 2/33 Cave Castle 7.2.68 GV II House. 1804 by Henry Hakewill for Henry Boldero Barnard; extensively remodelled c1872 for Charles Boldero Barnard. Domestic ranges demolished c1938. White brick with stone dressings, graduated slate roof. Gothick Revival style. Square plan with polygonal angle turrets. Entrance front: 3 storeys, 4 bays with central 3-storey projecting porch. Diagonal buttresses with offsets flanking pointed door in Perpendicular style of 3 moulded orders on nook-shafts with ornate roundels to spandrels in flat- headed surround. First floor: canted oriel window with single lights with transoms. Sill band. Similar window to second floor under low crenellated parapet. Raised coped gable bearing cross finial over a coat-of-arms. To right and left of the porch at ground-floor level are late C20 extensions of no architectural merit. First floor: sill bands; to right, a 2-light cross- mullion window. To left, 2 similar windows. Second-floor band: similar but smaller windows to second floor. Crenellated parapet, hipped roof, grouped octagonal stacks. 4-storey corner turrets have boarded doors in pointed openings and blocked lancets with sill bands. Gun-loops at eaves level, string course and crenellated parapets. Garden front: 2 storeys, 5 bays in symmetrical elevation. Centre bay is a projecting canted bay window which rises through 2 floors and has transomed windows and crenellated parapet. It is flanked by buttresses with offsets which rise above the eaves of the house to have their own crenellated caps. To right is a French window: otherwise all windows are cross-mullion type. First floor: similar windows with double transoms under hoodmoulds with foliage stops; sills also have foliage stops. C20 glazing throughout. Crenellated parapet. Left turret has small 4-centred windows in square openings with decorated spandrels. Gun loop at eaves level, string course and crenellated parapet. Interior: much altered in late C19. Cut-string stair with scrolled tread-ends and ornate wrought-iron balustrade carrying moulded handrail. Oval cartouche over stair with sculptural group in high relief of Neptune in his chariot; smaller classical roundels to either side. A suite of rooms on the first floor (once a single room) has a series of fine and elaborate classical plaster ceilings.

Listing NGR: SE9167931064

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
164802
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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