Stone Gappe
STONE GAPPE, LOTHERSDALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167086
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Stone Gappe
- Statutory Address:
- STONE GAPPE, LOTHERSDALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1167086
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Stone Gappe
- Statutory Address 1:
- STONE GAPPE, LOTHERSDALE ROAD
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:
- STONE GAPPE, LOTHERSDALE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lothersdale
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 96792 45751
History
Stone Gappe is thought to have been the basis for Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Bronte’s (1816-55) Jane Eyre (1847): Jane’s unhappy childhood home in the novel. In May 1839, Charlotte moved to Stone Gappe to be the governess to the Sidgwick family’s children, however the position proved to be disagreeable to her and by the 19th of the next month she gave up the position and returned to her father’s parsonage in Haworth.
Details
SD 94 NE LOTHERSDALE LOTHERSDALE ROAD
6/83 Stone Gappe (formerly
listed under Glusburn
10.9.54 CP)
II*
House, 1725 (on chimneystack). Built for William Bawdwen. Hammer dressed stone with a hipped stone slate roof. Built of three storeys and five bays, the south front being symmetrical around a canted triple bay. Two string courses which ramp up to meet chamfered quoins, the elevation being competed by a heavy cornice. Windows are sashes, those to the ground floor being architraved, those to upper floors having, plain stone surrounds. To the east gable wall is a small semioctagonal porch with a round-headed doorway and two tripartite square stone-mullion windows which have sashes. To the rear wall there is a round-headed stair window which has sashes retaining glazing bars, along with an early mullion window. This window, though missing its central mullion, is double chamfered, the outer chamfer being hollow. Of the two chimneys, one has blind arcading, and is inscribed 1725 WMB. Inside the house has been altered, but it retains an early staircase of 2 flights with a heavy closed string, moulded handrail, turned balusters and panelled newels. The main staircase has cantilevered stone treads, cast iron balusters and a continuous handrail.
Listing NGR: SD9679245751
This listing was enhanced in 2016 to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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