Beck House
Beck House, Raynes Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317037
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Beck House
- Statutory Address:
- Beck House, Raynes Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1317037
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Beck House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Beck House, Raynes Road
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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:
- Beck House, Raynes Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Giggleswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 81044 63991
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 September 2025 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SD 86 SW
4/11
GIGGLESWICK
RAYNES ROAD (east side)
Beck House
20.2.58
II*
Formerly house, now part of Giggleswick School. Early c18 with early C19 and 1930s alterations. Squared rubble, limestone dressings, slate roof. Originally central staircase plan. Garden front: tripartite composition. Central two storeys three bays with recessed two storeys two bays wings. Central entrance has eared architrave, six panel door and eight pane rectangular fanlight. Console brackets support round pediment; pulvinated frieze with lion's mask and foliate carving. Flanking ground floor windows each has moulded architrave , pulvinated frieze and broken round pediment ; 18 pane sashes. Three first floor windows similar but with 15 pane sashes and triangular pediments. Projecting chamfered quoins. Round-headed pediment to gable with three attic windows in tympanum: single central light with moulded architrave and 24 pane sashes flanked by two oculi. Left and right-hand ridge stacks. Hipped wings to left and right each have two windows per storey, moulded architraves; 18 pane sashes to ground floor and 15 panes to upper floor. Upper floor string course. Projecting chamfered quoins. Moulded eaves cornice. Right- and left-hand fluted rainwater heads inscribed T B (T Banker) 1787. 1930s extension to left, two storeys, seven bays. Right-hand return. Ground floor windows retain early C18 sashes with 36 panes.
Interior: early C19 dog-leg staircase. Dog-leg servants' stairs retain early C18 closed string turned balusters and grip handrail to attic. Kitchen retains early C18 fireplace with huge overmantle, fluted capitals. A similar treatment of five bay pediment of 1707 at Brizlincote Hall, Bretby, Derbyshire.
Listing NGR: SD8104463991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323813
- 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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