Ruins of Slingsby Castle
RUINS OF SLINGSBY CASTLE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149761
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Slingsby Castle
- Statutory Address:
- RUINS OF SLINGSBY CASTLE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149761
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Ruins of Slingsby Castle
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINS OF SLINGSBY CASTLE, HIGH STREET
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:
- RUINS OF SLINGSBY CASTLE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Slingsby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE6962774896
Details
SE 6974
10/157
25.1.54
SLINGSBY
HIGH STREET
(west side)
Ruins of Slingsby Castle
GV
II
Ruins of country house. 1620s. For Sir Charles Cavendish, probably by
John Smythson. Limestone rubble brought to course, ashlar dressings.
Oblong on plan with corner projections. Originally 2 storeys, 5 bays, with
projecting stair turrets to angles. Window openings with quoined jambs
under tooled triangular pediments. Remains of first-floor cornice with
decorated band. Corner turrets and parts of side walls surviving to
2 storeys in places. This building was probably never finished as
Sir Charles Cavendish fled to the continent with his brother the Duke of
Newcastle, in 1644. Scheduled as an Ancient Monument. Brooke A St C,
Slingsby and Slingsby Castle, 1904. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The North Riding,
1966.
Listing NGR: SE6962774896
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Brooke, A S C, Slingsby and Slingsby Castle, (1904)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)
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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