Raventofts Hall
RAVENTOFTS HALL, RIPLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315673
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Raventofts Hall
- Statutory Address:
- RAVENTOFTS HALL, RIPLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1315673
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Raventofts Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAVENTOFTS HALL, RIPLEY ROAD
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:
- RAVENTOFTS HALL, RIPLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishop Thornton, Shaw Mills and Warsill
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2600864985
Details
SE 26 SE
8/26
6.3.67
BISHOP THORNTON
RIPLEY ROAD
(west side, off)
Raventofts Hall
II
House. C17 and possibly earlier, with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed
gritstone rubble, purple slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, with lower 2-
storey, 1 bay block to right. 2-storey range to rear (west) gives a T-
shaped plan. Irregular fenestration. C20 gabled porch with board door to
left of centre; 2 sashes to left; 4-light chamfered mullioned window and
single light window to right; sash far right. First floor, left to right:
6-pane sash, 2-light C20 casement, 2 single-light windows, 6-pane sash,
single light. Gable copings and large central ridge stack. Rear wing
contains mullioned windows and later openings. Interior not inspected at
resurvey but reported to contain C17 panelling and staircase and a priest's
hiding place. During the C15 and C16 Raventofts Hall was the residence of
the Forester, the Archbishop of York's chief official. The Walworth family
held the office until the early C17. John Walworth was convicted of
complicity in the Rising of the North in 1569 but he was not executed. The
estate was sold to the Ingilby family of Ripley and during the Civil War was
owned by Peter Ingilby. During the later C17 and early C18 the house had
become the main centre of Nidderdale Catholicism but in the mid C18 the
estate passed to Stephen Ingilby, a conformist. He allowed the priest to
stay at Raventofts but later gave a site in Bishop Thornton village for a
priests house with a room fitted as a chapel (Saint Joseph's Presbytery
(qv)). Father Hugh Aveling, 'The Catholic Recusants of the W R of
Yorkshire'. Proceedings of the Leeds Phil and Lit Society, X, Part VI,
September 1963, p 191.
B Jennings, A History of Nidderdale, 1967, p 111, 380, et al.
Listing NGR: SE2600864985
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330947
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jennings, B, A History of Nidderdale, (1967), 111, 380
Proceedings of the Leeds Philological and Literary Society in Part 6, Vol. 10, (1963), 191
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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