NORTH COWTON GRANGE

NORTH COWTON GRANGE, BACK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317089
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: NORTH COWTON GRANGE
Statutory Address:: NORTH COWTON GRANGE, BACK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1317089
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: NORTH COWTON GRANGE
Statutory Address 1:: NORTH COWTON GRANGE, BACK LANE

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:: NORTH COWTON GRANGE, BACK LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Moulton
National Grid Reference:: NZ 26470 04843

Details

MOULTON BACK LANE NZ 20 SE (north side, off)

6/92 North Cowton Grange

- II

Farmhouse. Early-mid C17. Possibly for Bryan Smithson, a Recusant, or Margaret Stancy. Rubble with ashlar dressings, artificial stone slate roof. L-shaped plan, 2 storeys, 2 bays with l-bay wing projecting front left. West front: south range (set back) has quoins to right. To left, board door in chamfered ashlar surround with triangular head, and to its right a C20 casement window in part-surround of 4-light mullion window. On first floor, C20 casement window in a surround of 3-light chamfered mullion window. Stack at end right. To right, C20 rendered brick range, not of special interest. Inner (south) return of projecting west range: quoins to left. To right, blocked ashlar doorway with interrupted jambs and triangular head, and to its left a C20 casement window in part-surround of 4- light mullion window. On first floor, a C20 casement window in surround of 3-light mullion window. Shaped kneeler, ashlar coping to left. Gable end of west range: large external chimney stack, quoined and stepped. Rear (south range): quoins. Central C20 6-panel door. To left, blocked 2-light, formerly 4-light, chamfered mullion window on ground floor and 3-light chamfered mullion window with iron stanchions on first floor. To right, 2 blocked lights and 2 side-sliding sashes of 4-light chamfered mullion window, with part drip-mould, on ground floor; altered 5-light chamfered mullion window. Shaped kneeler, ashlar coping to right. End stacks, with early brick upper sections and circular brick chimneys. Right return: 1:1 first-floor windows. To left, surround of 2-light mullion window with cyma recta drip-mould on ground floor; blocked 2-light window with stanchion and external stack on corbels on first floor; single-light in gable. To right, 2-light mullion window with stanchions and cyma recta drip-mould on ground floor; 2-light casement window on first floor. Interior (west range): inglenook fireplace hidden in ground-floor room, also steps leading up to priest's hole. Large ceiling beam with stepped peg-holes in ground-floor room. Part of stone surround of large fireplace hidden in ground-floor room in south range. Oak beams and joists chamfered and stopped in first-floor room. The grange of Fountains Abbey, excavated in 1962, lay further north nearer the farm called Halnaby Grange. It was destroyed by early C14 Scottish raids, but timber-framed buildings were reconstructed which lasted until a severe fire destroyed them very late in the C16. Subsequently, the present stone building was built further south. The then receiver of the abbey's rents, Thomas Smithson, took up residence at the Dissolution without legal authority, but he and his descendants, who were Recusants, remained there until some time before 1657, when Margaret Stancy, beneficiary of a Will, was in residence. Platt, The Monastic Grange in Medieval England (1969) Appendix I, p138 ff; article on Moulton in Scorton Grammar School Magazine, 1925.

Listing NGR: NZ2647004843

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Legacy System number:: 322158
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Platt, C, The Monastic Grange in Medieval England, (1969), 138

Legal

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