Acaster Selby is a village in North Yorkshire, England. It was formerly a civil parish, but has been incorporated in the civil parish of Appleton Roebuck. The village contains four listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".[1] The listed buildings consist of two farmhouses, a barn and a church.
Buildings
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| Manor Farm 53°51′52″N 1°07′41″W / 53.86442°N 1.12817°W |
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c. 1660–70 | Originally Acaster Hall, the building has been much reduced in size. It is in reddish-brown brick on a Magnesian Limestone plinth, with a modillion floor band and a pantile roof. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan, with a main front of three bays. The original entrance is blocked and a window inserted, it has a rusticated architrave, and is flanked by ornamental pilasters with Ionic capitals. The windows are 20th-century casements, and at the rear is a small round-arched opening and a blocked mullioned window.[2][3] |
| College Farmhouse 53°52′00″N 1°07′36″W / 53.86664°N 1.12678°W |
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Early 19th century (probable) | The farmhouse is in pinkish-brown brick, with dressings in red rubbed brick, a dentilled eaves band, and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. The middle bay projects slightly under a pediment, and contains a tripartite sash window in the ground floor and a horizontally-sliding sash window above. It is flanked by doorways with fanlights, and the other windows are a mix of sashes and casements. All the openings have red rubbed brick flat arches.[4] |
| Barn, College Farm 53°52′00″N 1°07′35″W / 53.86667°N 1.12634°W |
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Early 19th century (probable) | The barn is in pinkish-brown brick, with stone dressings, a dentilled eaves band, and a pantile roof with moulded stone coped gables and kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a round-arched entrance with imposts, the windows are casements with mullions, in the upper floor is a segmental-headed opening, and in the right gable is a partly blocked elliptical-headed opening and the remains of pigeon openings.[5] |
| St John's Church 53°51′41″N 1°07′41″W / 53.86140°N 1.12815°W |
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1850 | The church, designed by J. Loughborough Pearson, is in sandstone with limestone dressings and a tile roof. It consists of a four-bay nave with a south porch, and a two-bay chancel with northeast vestry, and on the west gable is a bellcote. The porch has an opening with a pointed arch and a double-chamfered surround, and a door with a moulded surround and a hood mould, and there is a priest's door with a chamfered architrave and a hood mould.[2][6] |
References
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Citations
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edit- Historic England, "Manor Farm, Acaster Selby (1148410)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 31 December 2023
- Historic England, "College Farmhouse, Acaster Selby (1316322)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 31 December 2023
- Historic England, "Barn to College Farm, Acaster Selby (1148409)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 31 December 2023
- Historic England, "Church of St John, Acaster Selby (1316323)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 31 December 2023
- Historic England, Listed Buildings, retrieved 31 December 2023
- Harman, Ruth; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2017), Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-22468-9