Description

LOW ABBOTSIDE GRANGE
SD 99 SW
8/164
Coleby Hall, formerly
called Bowbridge Hall
GV II*
Manor house. Dated 1655. For John Colby (sic). Roughcast rubble, stone
slate roof. E-plan. 2 storeys with attics to bays 1, 3 and 5; 5 bays, bays
1, 3 and 5 gabled and projecting. Central tower porch has round-arched
ashlar doorway with moulded capitals, ogee-chamfered arris and hood-mould.
I C
Above, square plaque with weathered raised legend "1655". Stone benches
inside porch, and studded board door to inner square-headed doorway with
hood-mould and ovolo, fillet and hollow-moulding to arris. Board door in
chamfered ashlar surround to right of bay 5. Double-chamfered mullion and
transom windows, the same on every floor of each bay: 4-light with hood-
moulds to first bay; 2-light with dripstones to second bay; 3-light with
hood-mould to porch; 4-light with extended dripstones to fourth bay; 4-light
to fifth bay. Large external end stacks, shafted corniced stack between
bays 4 and 5. Left return: 3-light double-chamfered mullion window on
ground floor; 4-light double-chamfered mullion window with ogee-moulding on
inner chamfer to first floor. Interior: porch gives onto hall, now divided,
with chamfered fireplace with pointed arch of fine ashlar voussoirs with
masons' marks; parlour to right has fireplace with pointed flat arch of
ashlar voussoirs. Stone newel staircase at rear of hall. First floor:
sections of plasterwork frieze with fleurs-de-lis on first-floor, also
straight-headed chamfered fireplace. Collared-rafter roof trusses. Hartley
M & Ingilby J, Yorkshire Village (1979), pp 76-7; VCH i, p 201.

Listing NGR: SD9329991154

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538944

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Recommended Books

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)