Abbey House Ruins of Monastic Barn Easby, England

Listed Building Data

Abbey House Ruins of Monastic Barn 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
1179761
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II
Date Listed
6 November 1986
Name
ABBEY HOUSE RUINS OF MONASTIC BARN
Location
ABBEY HOUSE RUINS OF MONASTIC BARN
Parish
Easby
District
Richmondshire
County
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
NZ 18532 00182
Easting
418531.8930
Northing
500182.1200

Listed Building Description

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EASBY EASBY NZ 10 SE 4/40 Abbey House and ruins of monastic barn

GV II

Ruins of barn, partly converted into house. C14, with C19 and C20 alterations. Rubble sandstone, stone slate roof. Riverside (west) elevation: 2 storeys, 2:6 internal bays. To left, Abbey House with C20 openings. Barn: a small lancet window to each ground-floor bay; on first floor, in second and fifth bays a pitching doorway with stone platforms supported on corbels; 2 lancet windows with labels. No roof at time of resurvey. The continuation of the west elevation to the right appears to be medieval, but has no architectural features. East elevation: barn has, to right, wide opening with segmental arch reconstructed from chamfered stones, with keystone inscribed "WSS 73", and on the first floor a pitching doorway and the chamfered surround of a 2-light mullion window. To right, Abbey House: central doorway with dogtooth decoration on jambs and shouldered head; on either side a 4-pane window with shouldered head, that to right below an ogee arch with carving. External stack to right end. To left, C19 farm buildings built into and onto the southern continuation of the barn are not of special interest. Interior: ground-floor openings on west side of barn have deeply-splayed reveals. End walls have steeply-pitched gables. The medieval barn belonged to the Premonstratensian Abbey of St Agatha (qv).

Listing NGR: NZ1849600212