Bolton Hall
BOLTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318591
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bolton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- BOLTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318591
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bolton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOLTON 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:
- BOLTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston-under-Scar
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 07529 89762
Details
SE 08 NE PRESTON-UNDER-SCAR BOLTON HALL
9/54 Bolton Hall 13/2/67 GV II
Country house. Late C17, rebuilt after a fire in 1902. For Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton. Roughcast brick with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs. 3 storeys and basement; central block with flanking wings at right angles, 2:5:2; further ranges to west. Main haul: plinth. Chamfered rusticated quoins. Balustraded parapet linking wings. Windows in architraves. Basement with 12-pane unequally-hung sash windows, and in centre steps leading to front door. Central doorway with part-glazed paired leaves in architrave with pulvinated frieze and cornice. Above, coat of arms. On ground floor, 18-pane sash windows. First and second floors: sash windows with glazing bars. Bands between floors. Ornate lead rainwater heads, dated 1678, and down pipes. Inner returns of wings: 2 bays of windows as before. Cornice and balustraded parapets overall. Hipped roofs. Chimney-stacks at ends and at junctions of wings with central block. Central weathervane, flag-staff over right wing. To left of main block, added range of single storey and basement and 3 bays, continuing fenestration and other details of hall, except for blind parapet. To left again, a 1-bay pavilion with 6-pane sash window to second floor, cornice and blind parapet, and large stack to right. Further to left, 2-storey, 5-bay range, the central bay projecting slightly, and with chamfered rusticated quoins. On ground floor, 4 16-pane sash windows (bay 1 blank); 18-pane sashes on first floor. Hipped roof. Rear elevation of main block: 3 storeys; central block with recessed wings, 2:5:2. Chamfered rusticated quoins. Central doorway with part-glazed paired leaves in architrave with embellished frieze and consoles supporting broken segmental pediment containing keystone with cherub mask. Bands. Windows as on front elevation. Corniced and balustraded parapets. Stacks at ends and between bays 2 and 3, 5 and 6, 7 and 8. Rainwater goods and some C17 panelling inside the hall imported from a house in Winchester at the rebuilding. VCH i, p. 268.
Listing NGR: SE0752989762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 268
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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