Countersett Hall

Countersett Hall, Countersett

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1316903
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: Countersett Hall
Statutory Address:: Countersett Hall, Countersett

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1316903
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: Countersett Hall
Statutory Address 1:: Countersett Hall, Countersett

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Countersett Hall, Countersett

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:: SD 91908 87909

Details

SD 98 NW 13/62 BAINBRIDGE COUNTERSETT Countersett Hall

16.1.52

GV II* Manor house. Dated 1650. For Richard Robinson. Rubble, stone slate roof. Two storeys, 1:1:4 first floor windows, with added two storey porch in bay two. Quoins. Porch: part-glazed four-panel door in round-arched ashlar surround with imposts and interrupted jambs. Over keystone, stone inscribed 'R / R M 1650'. Above, stepped hood-mould. On first floor, stepped three-light window with hood-mould, and pigeon-loft in coped gable with corbel-shaped kneelers. Right return of porch: single-light window on first floor. Chamfered inner doorway with part-glazed door.

Ground floor to left: two-light flat-faced mullion window with hoodmould. To right: seven-light double chamfered mullion window, originally two windows of three- and two-lights; two six-pane sash windows, all under continuous hoodmould, stepped over first window.

First floor, to left: two-light double-chamfered mullion window. To right: three-light double-chamfered mullion window; fire window with trefoil head and wave moulding on arris; two three-light double-chamfered mullion windows. Shaped ovolo kneelers, ashlar coping. Corniced stacks at ends and between bays four and five. Single storey lean-to extension to right with leaved board door and sash window with glazing bars.

Rear elevation: two two-light chamfered-mullion windows, one single-light chamfered window, and another, blocked. Artificial stone slate roof. Left return: two single-light windows, and one chamfered single-light opening to left with drip-mould.

Interior: part of beehive oven in hall; in parlour, chamfered segmental-arched fireplace, panelled shutters, panelling, niche cupboard and moulded beams. First floor: in room over hall, decorated cupboard door; in room over parlour, stone fireplace with four-centred pointed arch; C17 door with splatted grille to rear bedroom. Curved-principal rafter roof trusses.

Richard Robinson became the first Quaker in Wensleydale in 1652, and illicit meetings were held in the parlour of Countersett Hall before the building of the nearby Meeting House (qv). George Fox stayed at Countersett Hall in 1652 and in 1677.

Listing NGR: SD9190887909

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 323084
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Braithwaite, W C, The Beginnings of Quakerism, (1970), 148-50
Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), 83
'North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report' in Report Number 693, ()

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.