BEAR PARK

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1301406
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: BEAR PARK
Statutory Address:: BEAR PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1301406
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: BEAR PARK
Statutory Address 1:: BEAR PARK

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BEAR PARK

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carperby-cum-Thoresby
National Park:: YORKSHIRE DALES
National Grid Reference:: SE0061388879

Details

5339 SE 08 NW 15/89 16.1.52

NORTH YORKSHIRE RICHMONDSHIRE CARPERBY CUM THORESBY BEAR PARK Bear Park

GV II*

Manor house. C17, perhaps with earlier core. Formerly the seat of one branch of the Metcalfe family of Wensleydale. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, E-plan with central through-passage. 5 first-floor windows on south elevation. Below window 3, 6-panel door and overlight in ashlar surround with wave-moulded arris, Tudor-arched head and hood-mould. Mullion windows, double-chamfered with a hollow on inner chamfer, and hood-moulds, mostly renewed. To left of door, 2 bays of 3-light windows; 3-light first- floor window above door; to right of door a 2-light window on ground floor; then 1 bay of 4-light windows of somewhat different design; a 4-light window on the ground floor and above it an original 5-light window. At each end, unequal coped gables of the cross-wings, each containing an oculus with ashlar moulded and keyed surround, that to the right with a cross saltire on each key. The right-hand gable continues down over an outshut with a 3-light window to the ground floor. C19 ashlar stacks at ends and to right of through-passage. Rear elevation: 2 unequal cross-wings and a porch project forward. Central single-storey gabled porch, with on the right a board door in ashlar quoined surround with wave-moulded arris and Tudor- arched head, to its left a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window, and above an oculus with moulded ashlar keyed surround. Double-chamfered mullion windows, of 2-lights on ground floor to right of porch, and of 3-lights on first floor on both sides. On ground floor to left of porch, a stone slab, said to be from Coverham Abbey, perhaps from the front of an altar, richly carved with a coat of arms with the Instruments of the Passion held by 2 small angels, flanked by the initials of Christ and the Virgin Mary. Left cross-wing has original 3-light window on the ground floor and 4-light window on the first floor. Right return of left cross-wing: board door in ashlar quoined moulded surround with Tudor arched head, cross-window to staircase, 3-light window to first floor. Right cross-wing terminates flush with house but has lower service-wing extension with external steps to first floor and 3-light mullion window on north end, and renewed openings to left return. Interior: in Dining Room, on high side of through-passage, C17 oak panelling with frieze, moulded first-floor beams and joists; beyond it, in Sitting Room, perhaps originally the parlour, a small C17 or earlier stone fireplace. In the old kitchen, at the low end, a large C17 fireplace with chamfered segmental-arched surround with masons' marks. In angle beside it, a circular stone staircase with below it a cavity, perhaps a priest-hole, as the Metcalfes were Recusant. Dalesman, November 1952, pp 370-1. VCH i, p 205

Listing NGR: SE0061388879

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 323111
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 205
'Dalesman' in November, (1952), 370-1

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.