Courthouse To East Of Colburn Hall

COLBURN COLBURN SE 19 NE 3/53 Courthouse to east of Colburn Hall (formerly listed as Barn at Colburn Hall) 4.2.69 GV I

Incorrectly marked on Ordnance Survey map as Saint Ann's Chapel. Courthouse, now storehouse. c1300. Rubble, pantile roof with stone slates at eaves. First-floor hall with undercroft. 2 storeys, 5 internal bays. Quoins. Main entrance to first floor on east side, with external stone steps leading up to board door in recess. Board door to undercroft. Raised verges with moulded coping and weathered finials. West elevation: buttress at left end; board sliding door to undercroft towards left; first-floor board door with quoined jambs to right. South gable end: first-floor window of 2 trefoiled lights divided by a shaft with Early English capital, tracery in head with a cusped quatrefoil, label. Above the window, a square opening blocked with brick, perhaps a dovecote. North gable end: 2 single-light windows to undercroft; on first floor, but at lower level than window at south end, single trefoiled light. Interior, in undercroft: segmental rear arch to eastern door; deeply-splayed reveals to north windows. Upper chamber: in eastern wall, fireplace with moulded segmental arch; end windows splayed, with chamfered segmental rear arches. Collared principal rafter roof trusses with trenched purlins, wall plate and common rafters, of C17 type, partially renewed. P F Ryder, Medieval Buildings of Yorkshire (1982), p 142, VCH i, 301.

Listing NGR: SE1963099232