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Latitude: 54.3765 / 54°22'35"N
Longitude: -2.0288 / 2°1'43"W
OS Eastings: 398229
OS Northings: 497884
OS Grid: SD982978
Mapcode National: GBR GK8T.LX
Mapcode Global: WHB59.T838
Plus Code: 9C6V9XGC+HF
Entry Name: Paradise
Listing Date: 21 April 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1301785
English Heritage Legacy ID: 322047
ID on this website: 101301785
Location: Low Row, North Yorkshire, DL11
County: North Yorkshire
District: Richmondshire
Civil Parish: Melbecks
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Tagged with: Building
MELBECKS LOW ROW
SD 99 NE
(south side)
15/106 Paradise
GV II*
House and manufactory in equal halves under 1 roof. Dated 1653 with C18
alterations. Rubble on boulder plinth with ashlar surrounds to
openings, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, added rear outshut. House:
3 bays. Central C20 panelled door in C17 quoined surround with recessed
panels on lintel inscribed 'I F' '1653'. To left, 3-light chamfered-
mullion window with moulded surround containing 8-pane casements. To
right of door and on upper floors, sash windows with glazing bars in
plain surrounds. On right, added bay with on each floor a 2-light flat-
faced mullion window containing small sashes. On left, manufactory: in
left corner, boarded door in plain stone surround; in right corner, C20
boarded door in hollow-chamfered stone surround. C18 mullioned windows:
ground floor: three 2-light, one 4-light, with casements; first floor:
two 2-lights, one 3-light, 1 single light; second floor: three 2-light,
two 3-light; upper floors with side-sliding sashes. Shaped kneelers,
ashlar copings overall; stacks at ends, 1 bay in from both ends, and in
centre. Chimney-breast projects from right return of house. In right
end of outshut 2 cart-sheds each with segmental arch of ashlar voussoirs
with keystone, 1 with double boarded doors, 1 blocked. Interior: stone
stairs in rear outshut of manufactory. C18 roof timbers. A major
centre of the Swaledale knitting industry, belonging to the Fryer, then
the Parke families. M Hartley, J Ingilby, The Yorkshire Dales, 1963,
p 259.
Listing NGR: SD9822997884
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