Chantry House
CHANTRY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301990
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry House
- Statutory Address:
- CHANTRY HOUSE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1301990
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Chantry House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANTRY HOUSE
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:
- CHANTRY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Witton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05508 88046
Details
SE 08 NE WEST WITTON CHANTRY
13/98 Chantry House
- II
Farmhouse. Dated 1766, possibly earlier in core. For Clarkson family. Rubble, artificial slate roof, stone slate roof to wing. T-shaped plan, main range facing south-west, with rear wing at right angles. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Quoins. In bay 3, C20 projecting gabled porch over part-glazed door in ashlar surround with waved top to lintel and inscription on fascia C "17IA66". C20 sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneelers, ashlar copings. End stacks. Left return shows older, lower roofline. Right return has blocked single-light window in gable. South-east side of rear range: round-headed landing window with thick glazing bars, radial at top, in ashlar surround with imposts and keystone; 2 bays of sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds. Shaped kneeler, ashlar coping to right. Stacks between bays 1 and 2 and at end right. Interior: squat doors of six fielded panels, staircase with turned balusters. The house is believed to have formed a cell of Jervaulx Abbey. In 1720, the house called Chantry was licensed as a place of meeting for Quakers. VCH i, p. 287; H. Speight, Romantic Richmondshire (1897), p. 413.
Listing NGR: SE0550888046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321846
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 287
Speight, H, Romantic Richmondshire, (1897), 413
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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