Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

MYD3633

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Description:  House. Listed Grade II. C17th with C19th alterations. L plan with central staircase to main block. Slobbered rubble, stone dressings, slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, left-hand bay breaks forward. Central entrance has Tuscan porch, enclosed in late-C19th with rockfaced stone; plank doors, rectangular fanlight. To right are remains of blocked late C17th entrance with moulded surround. C19th windows have plain surrounds - 2 to ground floor 3 to upper floor, all with sashes with glazing bars except window over porch which has 6 pane sashes. Two small upper floor casement windows to right of centre, one with reused C17th chamfered surround. Remains of several blocked C17th windows in former third storey. Shaped eaves modillions. Gable end and central ridge stacks. Hipped roof to projecting wing. Reputedly has origins as probably C16th peel tower. Interior not accessible. (1) 'Austwick Hall is one of the several dwellings in the North which have developed from pele towers'. (2) Austwick Hall is said to incorporate the remains of a medieval house, but is much altered externally. (3) Austwick Hall has a C19th appearance with no external evidence of antiquity. See GP. AO/64/151/5 for south-east aspect. (4) As described by source 4. Not outstanding. (5) Review and brief description of the small C19th woodland garden with formal elements near the house. (6)

Country:  England

County:  North Yorkshire

District:  Craven

Parish:  Austwick

Grid Reference:   SD769688

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 376911, 468870

Period:  1066 - 1539, 1800 - 1900, MEDIEVAL, LATE C18, LATE C19

Subject:  HOUSE, HOUSE

Intervention Type:  FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT), FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT), PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: MYD3633
[ADS] Associated Id: Monarch UID 44748
[ADS] Associated Id: Listed Building 3/36
[ADS] Associated Id: National Monuments Record SD 76 NE 1
[ADS] Import RCN: YDNPA13-MYD3633

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

Bibliographic References: 

• Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies (1996?) North Yorkshire Historic Parks and Gardens Review Exercise
• Ordnance Survey (nd) OS Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comment, A.J. Tittensor, 01/02/1977
• Department of the Environment (1988) 37th List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest
• Ordnance Survey (nd) OS Archaeology Division Field Investigator's Comment, J.R. Foster, 22/04/1964