The Rookery
THE ROOKERY, MALHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316720
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROOKERY, MALHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316720
- Date first listed:
- 13-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Rookery
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROOKERY, MALHAM 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:
- THE ROOKERY, MALHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirkby Malham
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 89511 61114
Details
KIRKBY MALHAM MALHAM ROAD SD 86 SE (North Side) 6/12 The Rookery II House, late C17 origin, refronted late C18 and extended late C19. Rubble, stone dressings, stone slate roof. Two storeys, double fronted. Door to left of centre with plain surround flanked by brackets carrying pediment. C19 door with Gothick glazing. Windows with raised hollow chamfered surrounds. Moulded doorway to left into original entrance lobby, blocked with C19 quatrefoil light. Stone stacks on right-hand gable and ridge stack at junction of original house and extension. Slightly projecting one bay C19 extension of rock-faced stone to left has raised band between floors, modillions at eaves. Gable end stack with twin octagonal shafts. All windows have late C19 sashes without glazing bars. Windows of various dates to rear including one C17 with 3 lights and chamfered mullions. Interior: massive inglenook fireplace in line with original doorway. Massive stone segmental bressummer in three pieces with lines incised to represent voussoirs of a type common up to the late C17.
Listing NGR: SD8951161114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324237
- 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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