GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL

GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131722
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL
Statutory Address:: GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131722
Date first listed:: 20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:: GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL
Statutory Address 1:: GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: GIGGLESWICK SCHOOL HOSTEL, CRAVEN BANK LANE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Giggleswick
National Grid Reference:: SD 80855 64142

Details

GIGGLESWICK CRAVEN BANK LANE SD 8064-8164 north side) 12/16 Giggleswick School Hostel

GV II

Hostel and dining hall. 1868 and 1875 by Austin and Paley. Gothic. Snecked stone, Westmorland slate roof. Tripartite composition: 1868 central 3 storeys, 2 bay entrance tower with recessed 2 storeys 6 bay wing to left. Left-hand projecting gabled 3 storeys bay and right-hand recessed 2 storeys 5 bay wing with projecting right-hand 3 storeys bay are additions of 1875. Entrance tower has left-hand entrance with 4-centre head; moulded surround,plank doors. 4-light mullionedand transomed ground floor window to right with King mullion. First floor 2-light and 3-light mullioned and transomed windows. Second floor sill band. Two-2-light windows with cinquefoil cusped heads. Embattled tower to left-hand bay with gargoyles, gable to right with crocketted finial. Gabled end bays differ in treat- ment. Left-hand bay is broader and contains entrance and canted bay window. First floor 3- and 2-light mullioned and transomed windows. 4 lancets to second floor. Right-hand bay two 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with Y tracery on ground floor. 4-light mullioned and transomed window on first floor and 2-light window with round-heads on second floor, crocketted finial. End bays are linked to centre by 2-storey range of 6 and 5 bays respectively: 2-light windows. Dormers have round- headed casements and projecting eaves with quartrefoils in gales. Left-hand, right- hand and central stacks. Louvred vents to wings. Source E A Bell A History of Giggleswick School (Leeds, 1912'

Listing NGR: SD8085564142

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Sources

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Bell, E A , A History of Giggleswick School, (1912)

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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.