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KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE

KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE, WHINMOOR HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190919
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE
Statutory Address:: KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE, WHINMOOR HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190919
Date first listed:: 30-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Feb-1990
List Entry Name:: KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE, WHINMOOR HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE, WHINMOOR HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kirby Knowle
National Grid Reference:: SE 45905 87467

Details

KIRBY KNOWLE WHINMOOR HILL SE 48 NE (NORTH SIDE, OFF) 4/29 KIRBY KNOWLE CASTLE (formerly listed as 1.5.52 New Building) GV II Marked on O.S. Map as Newbygill. Large house. Mid C17 for James Danby with C16 origins; thoroughly restored 1875, and altered 1875. Ashlar, Welsh slate roofs. 3-Storey, 4-bay main block with 2-storey canted bay added to right in front of a further 2 bays which extend rearwards beyond the main range and has another block to the north (altered C20); in the rear angle so formed is a 5-stage tower; at the left (west) end of the main block is a further, lower, 2-storey 1 x 2-bay addition. Chamfered plinth, double-chamfered mullion-and-transom windows, continuous dripmoulds between floors, high panelled parapet screening roof with semi-circular crenellations and obelisk corner finials. South front; cross windows to main range and to each face of canted bay which has an openwork parapet and conical roof. Stacks at ends of blocks. Tower rises above roof line. Rear: quoined lower has a double-chamfered window to all but 5th stage and lowest stage which has a 2-light C19 window above a blocked segmental-arched opening; double-chamfered window to each floor of right return; parapet is corbelled and has moulded panels divided by baluster-like pilasters with finials and central semicircular crenellations. The 2 bays to right of tower have cross-windows to ground floor and transomed 3-light windows above; the 2nd floor dripmould has decorative head-stops. The added bay on right has a cross-window to ground floor and round window in lozenge above. Left return: the addition has a C19 single-storey porch with segment-headed doorway and corniced parapet; cross windows; 2 heart-shaped openings at eaves level and 2 crow-stepped gables. Right return: transomed windows of 2, 3, and 4 lights; a chamfered doorway to centre of left-hand block. Interior not inspected, but VCH notes an oak stair in the tower (VCH, p.45). A castle is said to have been built on this site in the late C13 by Roger Lascelles, but it burnt down c1568 while owned by Sir John Constable. Before he could finish the repair work Constable died and it was not until the 1650s that reconstruction began again, for James Danby. Danby repaired the old parts, built the south front and west wing and changed the name to New Building. By the late C17 the house had passed to the Rokeby family. (W. Grainge, pp. 238-247; VCH, P.45) W. Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray: a historical and topographical account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood (1859). Victoria County History, North Yorkshire, Vol II.

Listing NGR: SE4590587467

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Legacy System number:: 332563
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Grainge, W , The Vale of Mowbray: A Historical and Topographical Account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood, (1859)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.