Scargill Castle
SCARGILL CASTLE, CHAPEL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121820
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Scargill Castle
- Statutory Address:
- SCARGILL CASTLE, CHAPEL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121820
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Scargill Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- SCARGILL CASTLE, CHAPEL LANE
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:
- SCARGILL CASTLE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Scargill
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05353 10726
Details
SCARGILL CHAPEL LANE NY 01 SE (North side, off)
21/184 Scargill Castle (Formerly listed as 12.1.67 Scargill Castle ruins II* and Gatehouse)
Castle gatehouse and flanking fragmentary walls. C15 with alterations. Large blocks of squared sandstone; stone-flagged roofs.
Gabled 3-storey gatehouse: partly-blocked depressed-pointed archway with thin voussoirs and pair of C20 doors; chamfered window surround and similar, smaller surround above. External stack rises from first-floor level of right return. Semicircular stair tower wtih chamfered slit openings, set-back top section and monopitch roof, attached to rear of left return. Featureless section of high wall to left. Longer section of wall to right has chamfered, first-floor window surround. Rear of gatehouse similar to front.
Interior: ground floor of tower has grooved, slightly-cambered transverse ceiling beam of heavy scantling; chamfered doorway with large alternating jambs leads into stair tower; spiral stone tower stair leads to first- and second- floor chamfered doorways with run-out stops.
Further fragments of castle masonry to rear include the left jamb and back wall of a wide, arched fireplace. In dangerous condition at time of survey.
Scheduled Ancient Monument. (The Victoria History of the Counties of England, ed. William Page, F.S.A., A History of the County of York North Riding, 1925).
Listing NGR: NZ0535310726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111356
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914)
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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