Yorke's Folly Bewerley, England
Listed Building Data
Yorke's Folly 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1187187
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- II
- Date Listed
- 3 March 1987
- Name
- YORKE'S FOLLY
- Location
- YORKE'S FOLLY, NOUGHT BANK ROAD
- Parish
- Bewerley
- District
- Harrogate
- County
- North Yorkshire
- Grid Reference
- SE 15864 63530
- Easting
- 415864.0000
- Northing
- 463530.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
BEWERLEY NOUGHT BANK ROAD SE 16 SE (east side, off)
8/13 Yorke's Folly
- II
Folly or landmark. Late C18 - early C19. For a member of the Yorke family. Gritstone and ashlar. 2 shafts built to look like the ruin of an east window or church crossing, with springers for arches and deeply-chamfered quoins. Each shaft L-shaped on plan and approximately 15 metres high. Originally a structure of 3 columns know as 'Three Stoups', one was blown down in 1893. They were said to have been built when work was scarce in the district and to have been a landmark 'for many generations' in 1894 (Speight). The Yorkes built the new hall at Bewerley in 1815-20 and it is likely that this landmark was erected as part of the landscaping of the area at that time. H Speight, Nidderdale, 1894, p 457.
Listing NGR: SE1586463530
