The Old Vicarage
The Old Vicarage, Arncliffe, Skipton, BD23 5QD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316767
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- The Old Vicarage, Arncliffe, Skipton, BD23 5QD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316767
- Date first listed:
- 04-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Old Vicarage, Arncliffe, Skipton, BD23 5QD
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 Old Vicarage, Arncliffe, Skipton, BD23 5QD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arncliffe
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9335271929
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 December 2023 to amend the description due to change in building use, remove superfluous source details from text and to reformat the text to current standards
SD 9271-9371
22/3
ARNCLIFFE
The Old Vicarage
GV
II
Vicarage, two houses at time of listing. Probably 1770, with mid C19 addition and C20 conversion. Coursed squared rubble and ashlar, graduated stone slate roof. Two storeys, three bays, with projecting added bay, right. Chamfered quoins.
West front: the original range has a central round-headed window on each floor, with glazing bars and keyed stone surrounds, flanked by corniced Venetian windows; ground floor windows have Tuscan columns with ashlar panels below; first floor sill band. A panel below the central first floor window has the inscription: "Edes Hasce Sacerdotales/ H.Tennant, A.M./Hodie Vicarius Extruxit/ AD MDCC_XII"; the fifth letter of the date has been erased, probably "L", the date originally 1770. Projecting added bay to the right: inserted doorway, left.
Rear: the original range has five windows to each floor, all sashes with glazing bars in architraves with first floor sill band. The projecting added bay to left has two similar windows to each floor and has chamfered quoins. Right return, the main facade of the C19 house: a glazed door in recessed porch which is flanked by Tuscan columns with cornice and entablature; sashes to left, ground and first floor, and above the entrance; inserted window to right of entrance.
Interior: a large C19 staircase hall is built against the right hand window of the original house.
Henry Tennant was Rector of Arncliffe 1765-1779 and built the house just before his brother, John built the Chapel House, Kilnsey (1783) in similar style. Whitaker (c1800) refers to " the shell of a handsome vicarage erected by the last incumbent", suggesting that the house was either not completed or was unoccupied. The extension was probably built after 1835 by Canon Boyd.
Listing NGR: SD9335271929
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324587
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whitaker, T D, The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven, (1805), 580
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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