Worton Hall
WORTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316868
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Worton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- WORTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316868
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Worton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORTON HALL
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:
- WORTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bainbridge
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9552590105
Details
BAINBRIDGE WORTON
SD 99 SE
9/84
Worton Hall
25.3.69
- II
House. Dated 1600. For Anthony Besson, the founder of Yorebridge Grammar
School (qv), and an attorney of the Star Chamber. Rubble, stone slate roof.
2-cell end-entry house with added 2-storey porch. 2 storeys, 3:1 first
floor-windows. Quoins. Mullion windows. Ground floor: 3-light window with
ovolo moulding on chamfer and hoodmould; 6-light double-chamfered window
with ovolo moulding and hoodmould. First floor: 4-, 3-, 3-light hollow-
chamfered windows. Central corniced stack. To right, porch set back from
line of house: board door in chamfered quoined surround with slab lintel,
and on first floor a 3-light chamfered-mullion window with hoodmould. End
entry doorway inside porch: board door in ashlar chamfered surround with
lintel inscribed "ANNO DOMINE 1600 A.B.". Interior:in right-hand ground-
floor room, segmental arch of 2 richly-moulded orders, part of either
fireplace-and-doorway group or triple fireplace group.
Listing NGR: SD9552590105
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323106
- 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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