The Dairies (East House)

THE DAIRIES (EAST HOUSE), THE PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1296531
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
The Dairies (East House)
Statutory Address:
THE DAIRIES (EAST HOUSE), THE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1296531
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
The Dairies (East House)
Statutory Address 1:
THE DAIRIES (EAST HOUSE), THE PARK

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

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:
THE DAIRIES (EAST HOUSE), THE PARK

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Henderskelfe
National Grid Reference:
SE 71357 70349

Details

HENDERSKELFE THE PARK SE 7170 11/49 Castle Howard The Dairies (East House) GV II

The grade shall be amended to read II* (star)

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HENDERSKELFE THE PARK SE 7170 Castle Howard 11/49 The Dairies (East House) GV II House. c1720 with later alterations. By Sir John Vanbrugh for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle. Tooled sandstone ashlar and Welsh slate roof. Central-entry house with pair of pavilions and connecting wall between to left. 2 storeys, 3 bays to main house. Double-leaf 6-fielded-panel door with glazed upper panels in architrave with decorated pulvinated frieze flanked by consoles holding moulded pediment. 6-pane sashes in architraves with stepped keystones throughout. Moulded cornice. Low parapet with ornamental urns to angles. Concealed roof with central corniced stack. Adjacent pavilion: single tall storey with 3 bays. Casement windows under flat arches. Hipped roof. Connecting wall: double-leaf board door under flat arch and coping stones. End pavilion: 2 storeys, single bay. Casements under flat arches. Hipped roof.

Listing NGR: SE7135270348

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
329005
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 32 North Yorkshire,

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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