Coleby Hall
COLEBY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316922
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Coleby Hall
- Statutory Address:
- COLEBY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316922
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Coleby Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLEBY 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:
- COLEBY HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Low Abbotside
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93299 91154
Details
LOW ABBOTSIDE GRANGE SD 99 SW 8/164 Coleby Hall, formerly called Bowbridge Hall GV II* Manor house. Dated 1655. For John Colby (sic). Roughcast rubble, stone slate roof. E-plan. 2 storeys with attics to bays 1, 3 and 5; 5 bays, bays 1, 3 and 5 gabled and projecting. Central tower porch has round-arched ashlar doorway with moulded capitals, ogee-chamfered arris and hood-mould. I C Above, square plaque with weathered raised legend "1655". Stone benches inside porch, and studded board door to inner square-headed doorway with hood-mould and ovolo, fillet and hollow-moulding to arris. Board door in chamfered ashlar surround to right of bay 5. Double-chamfered mullion and transom windows, the same on every floor of each bay: 4-light with hood- moulds to first bay; 2-light with dripstones to second bay; 3-light with hood-mould to porch; 4-light with extended dripstones to fourth bay; 4-light to fifth bay. Large external end stacks, shafted corniced stack between bays 4 and 5. Left return: 3-light double-chamfered mullion window on ground floor; 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with ogee-moulding on inner chamfer to first floor. Interior: porch gives onto hall, now divided, with chamfered fireplace with pointed arch of fine ashlar voussoirs with masons' marks; parlour to right has fireplace with pointed flat arch of ashlar voussoirs. Stone newel staircase at rear of hall. First floor: sections of plasterwork frieze with fleurs-de-lis on first-floor, also straight-headed chamfered fireplace. Collared-rafter roof trusses. Hartley M & Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village (1979), pp 76-7; VCH i, p 201.
Listing NGR: SD9329991154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323192
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hartley, M, Ingilby, J, Yorkshire Village, (1979), 76-7
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York, (1907), 201
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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