Listed buildings in Green Hammerton

Green Hammerton is a civil parish in the former Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains eleven 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 parish contains the village of Green Hammerton and the surrounding area. Most of the listed buildings are houses, and the others are a bridge and a chapel of ease.

Buildings

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Name and location Photograph Date Notes
Green Farmhouse and wall
54°00′25″N 1°18′03″W / 54.00706°N 1.30091°W / 54.00706; -1.30091 (Green Farmhouse and wall)
Mid 18th century The house is in red brick, with a string course, and a pantile roof with two courses of stone slates and stone coping. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a plain surround, and the windows are sashes. The front garden wall is in brick with stone coping, and is ramped up at each end.[2]
Jasmine Cottage and house to the left
54°00′24″N 1°18′04″W / 54.00668°N 1.30119°W / 54.00668; -1.30119 (Jasmine Cottage and house to the left)
 
Mid 18th century A pair of red brick houses, with a moulded string course, cogged eaves, and a pantile roof with tumbled brickwork in the gables. There are two storeys and each house has three bays. On the front are two doorways, and the windows are sshes in flush architraves.[3]
Low Royd
54°00′30″N 1°18′02″W / 54.00829°N 1.30057°W / 54.00829; -1.30057 (Low Royd)
 
Mid 18th century The house is in red brick, with a stepped string course, an eaves cornice, and a pantile roof with two courses of stone slate. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front is a blocked doorway, the ground floor windows are 20th-century replacements, and in the upper floor are horizontally-sliding sash windows with flat brick arches and brick sills.[4]
High Farm House and railings
54°00′20″N 1°18′06″W / 54.00556°N 1.30175°W / 54.00556; -1.30175 (High Farm House and railings)
 
Late 18th century The house is in roughcast brick, with a string course, a dentilled eaves cornice, and a pantile roof with brick copings and stone kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays, and a later parallel range at the rear. The central doorway has pilasters, a fanlight, and an open pediment with a panelled soffit. The windows are sashes in architraves with stone sills. Enclosing the semicircular forefront are iron railings with pointed bars, and the gate has thicker iron piers with bulbous finials.[5]
Plum Cottage, wall, railings and gate
54°00′23″N 1°18′05″W / 54.00649°N 1.30135°W / 54.00649; -1.30135 (Plum Cottage, wall, railings and gate)
Late 18th century The house is in red brick, with a cobbled foundation course, a brick plinth, a string course, a dentilled eaves cornice, and a pantile roof with two courses of stone slates. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a plain surround and a cornice, flanked by segmental bow windows, and the upper floor contains sash windows in architraves. The front garden wall is in brick with stone capping and iron railings. It contains a gate, and iron gate piers with ball finials.[6]
Post Office and two houses
54°00′19″N 1°18′04″W / 54.00514°N 1.30118°W / 54.00514; -1.30118 (Post Office and two houses)
 
Late 18th century A row of three houses, the middle one containing a post office and shop. They are in rendered brick, with a string course, a dentilled eaves cornice, and a pantile roof with raised verges and stone coping on the left. There are two storeys and six bays, the right two bays lower. On the front are three doorways, each with fluted pilasters, an entablature, a cornice, and a fanlight, the middle one blocked. Flanking the middle doorway are bow windows, and the other windows are sashes in architraves.[7]
Providence House
54°00′07″N 1°19′13″W / 54.00191°N 1.32033°W / 54.00191; -1.32033 (Providence House)
c. 1780 The house is in red brick, with painted floor bands, and a hipped stone slate roof. There are three storeys and three bays. The central doorway has a fanlight, and a lintel with a keystone. This is flanked by canted bay windows, and the other windows are sashes with incised lintels, keystones and stone sills. On the front is a fire insurance plaque, and another inscribed plaque. To the left is a lower two-storey range with horizontally-sliding sash windows.[8]
Hall Farm House
54°00′28″N 1°18′00″W / 54.00786°N 1.30009°W / 54.00786; -1.30009 (Hall Farm House)
Early 19th century The house is in rendered brick, with stone sills, a moulded eaves cornice, and a hipped M-shaped Westmorland slate roof. There are two storeys, a double depth plan, and three bays, and a lower two-storey wing on the right. In the centre is a doorway in an architrave with paterae, and the windows are sashes.[9]
Skip Bridge
53°59′52″N 1°15′57″W / 53.99765°N 1.26572°W / 53.99765; -1.26572 (Hall Farm House)
 
Early 19th century The bridge carries the old York Road over the River Nidd. It is in stone, and consists of three round arches with rounded cutwaters, and two piers carried up as pedestrian refuges. The bridge has square pilasters, a projecting band, and a parapet with shallow pointed coping.[10][11]
Stamford House and railings
54°00′23″N 1°18′05″W / 54.00628°N 1.30137°W / 54.00628; -1.30137 (Stamford House and railings)
 
Early to mid 19th century The house is in cream and brown brick with a blue slate roof. There are two storeys, a double depth plan, and three bays. The central doorway has a plain surround and a narrow cornice, and the windows as sashes. In front is a low brick wall with stone coping and iron railings. It contains cast iron gate piers with open-work flower and scroll motifs.[12]
St Thomas' Chapel
54°00′15″N 1°17′59″W / 54.00418°N 1.29966°W / 54.00418; -1.29966 (St Thomas' Chapel)
 
1874–76 The chapel of ease, designed by George Gilbert Scott, is in stone with a red tile roof. It has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave and a chancel, transepts, an organ chantry and a porch. Between the nave and the chancel is a bellcote containing two bells.[13][14]

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  • Historic England, "Green Farmhouse and front garden wall, Green Hammerton (1149972)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Jasmine Cottage and house attached to left, Green Hammerton (1149973)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Low Royd, Green Hammerton (1315557)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "High Farm House and railings to front, Green Hammerton (1294126)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Plum Cottage with front wall, railings and gate, Green Hammerton (1189770)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Post Office and 2 attached houses, Green Hammerton (1189778)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Providence House, Green Hammerton (1149971)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Hall Farm House, Green Hammerton (1189764)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Skip Bridge carrying Old York Road over River Nidd, Green Hammerton (1294083)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Stamford House and front railings, Green Hammerton (1315558)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 October 2024
  • Historic England, "Chapel of St Thomas, Green Hammerton (1392840)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 29 October 2024
  • Historic England (10 July 2024), Listed Buildings, retrieved 29 October 2024
  • Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.