Dalton Hall

DALTON HALL, HIGH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1131349
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Dalton Hall
Statutory Address:
DALTON HALL, HIGH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1131349
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Dalton Hall
Statutory Address 1:
DALTON HALL, HIGH LANE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
DALTON HALL, HIGH LANE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Dalton
National Grid Reference:
NZ 11064 09020

Details

NZ 10 NW DALTON HIGH LANE (west side)

5/21 Dalton Hall 4.2.69

GV II*

Fortified manor house. C15 with late C16 or early C17 alterations, early and mid C19 alterations and extension, C20 restoration. Rubble with ashlar dressings, artificial stone slate roofs. T-shaped plan, 2 and 3 storeys, 2:1:1 first-floor windows. Continuous ashlar plinth. Quoins to 3-storey, 3-bay tower, to left of 2-bay early C19 extension, and to right of mid C19 service addition. Left 2 bays: to right, 6-panel door below fanlight with radial glazing bars in ashlar doorcase with open pediment on cavetto brackets with paterae; to left, 3-light sash window; first-floor, sash windows with glazing bars in ashlar surrounds; ashlar coping and end stack to left. Central tower: ground-floor canted bay window on bowed ashlar base; first-and second-floor windows as first-floor windows to left; hipped roof; end stacks, that to right external. Right-hand range: board door in ashlar surround to right, and on each floor a casement window in ashlar surround; ashlar coping and end stack to right. Rear of tower: quoins; ground-floor French window in made-up double-chamfered surround; on first and second floors a 2-light double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould, and similar blocked window without hoodmould in gable which has moulded coping. Left return of tower: blocked ashlar surround of original doorway. Right return of tower: external stack supported on 3 huge first-floor corbels, hidden inside lean-to scullery. The tower had 2 heated rooms on the first floor, then had a fourth storey added and a large fireplace formed on the ground floor. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 415.

Listing NGR: NZ1106409020

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Sources

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North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 415, ()

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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.

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