The Rock is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1969. A C18 Folly.
The Rock
- WRENN ID
- endless-crypt-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1969
- Type
- Folly
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 10 SE NZ 1804-1904 9/144 15/144 4.2.69
GILLING WITH HARTFORTH AND SEDBURY SEDBURY PARK The Rock (formerly listed as The Folly, Sedbury Park)
GV II
Folly. Dated 1795. By John Foss of Richmond for the D'Arcy Hutton family. Coursed rubble sandstone. 2-storey circular tower enclosed by octagonal single-storey base from which side-walls extend along the top of the outcrop of rock upon which it is built. The base contained the staircase, but is now partly collapsed; each side had a blind pointed-arched window, the voussoirs alternately rusticated, and had battlemented parapet, all now gone. Tower has 4 pointed-arched openings with matching voussoirs; similar treatment to course of stone next but one below eaves band, and with water- spout to south-west, former battlemented parapet gone. Side walls, now partly collapsed, had pointed-arched openings, one surviving in north wall, and battlemented parapet (now gone). Interior: upper room of ashlar, and with saucer dome; "RDH 1797" inscribed on lintel above north-east window. York Georgian Society, Annual Report, 1977, pp 40-41.
Listing NGR: NZ1999904607
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