Pinfold
PINFOLD, WETHERBY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393222
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Pinfold
- Statutory Address:
- PINFOLD, WETHERBY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393222
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Pinfold
- Statutory Address 1:
- PINFOLD, WETHERBY ROAD
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:
- PINFOLD, WETHERBY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rufforth with Knapton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 53126 51242
Reasons for Designation
This C18 pinfold is designated for listing for the following principal reasons:
* It is an effectively intact structure dating to before 1840 * It is a well preserved example of a village pound or pinfold, a once common structure that is now becoming increasingly rare in a national context * For its historic interest as a surviving component of traditional village affairs, as a structure used to deal with the serious problem of stray livestock.
Details
RUFFORTH
1474/0/10014 WETHERBY ROAD 03-APR-09 (Off) PINFOLD
II
Village Pound or Pinfold, probably C18. of Brick and Sandstone construction
PLAN: The pinfold is a roughly round enclosure with a single entrance to the north.
The pinfold is mostly constructed of handmade well coursed brick with a section of the exterior wall on the north west side of sandstone construction. Coping stones are either curved sandstone or of brick. A single internal brick buttress supports the pound wall. The entrance has a stone jamb to the right side.
HISTORY: This pinfold is probably C18 in date and is shown on the 1850 First Edition Ordnance Survey map. Unusually it occupies a location at the end of the village rather than the more common central position.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: This C18 pinfold is designated for the following principal reasons:
* It is an effectively intact structure dating to before 1840 * It is a well preserved example of a village pound or pinfold, a once common structure that is now becoming increasingly rare in a national context * For its historic interest as a surviving component of traditional village affairs, as a structure used to deal with the serious problem of stray livestock.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505721
- 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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