Museum is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1987. Folly.
Museum
- WRENN ID
- high-casement-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1987
- Type
- Folly
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 2293-2393 SE 2228 9355 9/47
HORNBY HORNBY PARK Museum
GV II
Gothick folly, now ruinous. Early C19. For the 6th Duke of Leeds of Hornby Castle (qv). Sandstone, lined with brick. 1 storey plus basement. East side: ashlar. 1:1:1 bays. Central canted bay with pointed-arched doorway set on 5 steps, with flanking matching windows, the top of the arches below traceried gables. Basement windows of quatrefoils within pointed arches. Parapet with triangular crenellations and corner pinnacles. West side: coursed rubble. 2 upper-floor windows. Offset plinth. At basement level: to right, 4-centred arched doorway; to left, 2 square window openings under deep lintels. At upper level: tall pointed-arched quoined surrounds for windows. String to overhanging ashlar parapet as on east side. The museum contained a collection of stuffed local birds and animals. The basement was occupied by the night-watchman and his family.
Listing NGR: SE2227093549
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