Ayton Castle
AYTON CASTLE, CASTLE RISE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148147
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ayton Castle
- Statutory Address:
- AYTON CASTLE, CASTLE RISE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148147
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Ayton Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- AYTON CASTLE, CASTLE RISE
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:
- AYTON CASTLE, CASTLE RISE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Ayton
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 98765 85091
Details
the entry for
WEST AYTON CASTLE RISE SE 9885 7/37 (north side, off) Ayton Castle Shall be amended to
SE 9885 WEST AYTON CASTLE RISE 7/37 northside, off) 18.1.67 Ayton Castle
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WEST AYTON CASTLE RISE SE 9885 (north side, off) 7/37 Ayton Castle - I
Pele tower, ruinated. Late C14. Sandstone ashlar. Rectangular, 2-cell plan 21 metres by 13.5 metres. Originally 3 storeys, on a chamfered plinth, each storey off-set with a chamfered string course. Pointed doorway flanked by square-headed window openings with chamfered quoined surrounds. Upper machicolation survives to east corner only. Interior: both ground floor rooms have depressed pointed tunnel vaults supported on chamfered transverse ribs. The surviving windows are deeply splayed. Staircases rise within the walls, to the left of the entrance, and from the inner room. Very rare building type in this part of Northern England. Scheduled Ancient Monument, No 144. The Victoria County History of the Counties of England: Yorkshire, North Riding, Vol II, p 441. F Rimington and J Rutter "Ayton Castle, its History and Excavation", Scarborough Archaeological Society Research Report Number 5, 1967.
Listing NGR: SE9876585091
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327062
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 441
Scarborough Archaeological Society Research Report in Scarborough Archaeological Society Research Report, Vol. 5, (1967)
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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