Whernside Manor
WHERNSIDE MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383952
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Whernside Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WHERNSIDE MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383952
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Whernside Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHERNSIDE MANOR
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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:
- WHERNSIDE MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dent
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 72474 85851
Details
DENT
SD78NW DENTDALE
162-1/11/155 (South side)
14/06/84 Whernside Manor
GV II
Formerly known as: West House DENTDALE.
House, now outdoor pursuits hostel. Probably mid to late C18;
altered. Thin coursed sandstone rubble with freestone
dressings, shallow hipped slate roof. T-plan formed by a
square main range facing west with a long service wing to the
rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over a basement (and now with a
recently-inserted attic), 3 windows, symmetrical; with raised
regular quoins, 1st-floor sillband and corbel table; a
round-headed doorway in the centre, with a plain surround and
fanlight with radiating glazing bars, up a flight of 4 steps
with nosings and protected by light wrought-iron railings; 2
tall windows at ground floor and 3 slightly shorter ones
above, all these windows furnished with unusual bi-partite
sashes with narrow leaves of 4 square panes either side of a
central wooden mullion; and small round-headed basement
windows. The roof now has a pair of low flat-roofed dormers
flanked by skylights, and a low but very wide multi-flue
chimney stack at the apex (lacking pots). The 2-window left
return has a 16-pane sash and a blind window at ground floor,
and a cross-window with glazing bars and a 16-pane sash above.
Lower rear wing in similar style.
INTERIOR not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built by the Sill family of Rigg End and
Deepdale Head, whose wealth is believed to have been derived
in part from slave plantations in Jamaica (commemorated by 2
wall monuments in Church of St Andrew, Main Street, qv).
Listing NGR: SD7247485851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484384
- 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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