Description

SE 6886-6986 KIRKBYMOORSIDE CASTLEGATE (west side)

6/28 (1/2) High Hall 3/8/78 II

House. c1615, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and remodelling. Probably built for George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. Timber frame within rendered rubble stone walls; brick nogging to interior; pantile roof; concrete stack. Originally 2-storey, 3-bay main range with 2-storey, 2-bay crosswings. Left crossbay rebuilt in C19 and demolished in C20. Main range now 4 bays. Staircase outshut at rear now raised, retains some timber framing. Original entrance is retained to left of centre, under a C20 glazed, stone porch with pitched roof. Porch incorporates a portion of C17 wall which contains a blocked squint window with chamfered reveals. 4-pane sashes to left and right of porch, and in crosswing gable wall. 4 similar windows above. The gable end of the crosswing retains original timber framing consisting of shaped king-post with V-bracing supported by a stop-chamfered tie beam on shaped brackets. Strap-pattern bargeboards are probably C19 and similar barge-boards finish the gable wall to left of main range. Staircase window at rear is a Venetian window with the columns removed, under an earlier thin timber lintel. Interior: the framing posts of the main range survive within the later walls. Stop chamfered joists throughout the ground floor. Mid C18 open string, dogleg staircase with turned balusters and shaped cheekpieces. Dado of fielded panels to staircase, and panelled reveals to staircase window and windows of ground floor room to right. The Hall was re-roofed in 1980 at which time the gable truss from the rear of the right crosswing was removed to the left gable wall of the main range.

Listing NGR: SE6953486784

External Links

• Wikidata Q26442148

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability