Museum Hornby, England
Listed Building Data
Museum has been designated a Grade II listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1131445
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 20 January 1987
- Name
- MUSEUM
- Location
- MUSEUM
- Parish
- Hornby
- District
- Richmondshire
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 22273 93549
- Easting
- 422273.0000
- Northing
- 493549.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
SE 2293-2393 HORNBY HORNBY PARK SE 2228 9355
9/47 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: SE2227393549
