Listed buildings in Moor Monkton
Moor Monkton is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It contains six listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Moor Monkton and the surrounding countryside. The listed buildings consist of a church, a chapel, three houses, and a railway signal box.
Key
[edit]| Grade | Criteria[1] |
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| II* | Particularly important buildings of more than special interest |
| II | Buildings of national importance and special interest |
Buildings
[edit]| Name and location | Photograph | Date | Notes | Grade |
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| All Saints' Church 53°59′52″N 1°13′19″W / 53.99781°N 1.22206°W |
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12th century | The church has been altered and extended through the centuries, including a restoration in 1878–79 by James Fowler. It is built in sandstone and gritstone with a tile roof, and consists of a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, clasping buttresses, string courses, a round-headed west window with nook shafts, a narrow round-headed window in the middle stage, two round-headed bell openings on each front with a continuous hood mould, and a plain parapet on corbels, with gargoyles on the corners. The south doorway and the priest's door, both round-headed, date from the 12th century.[2][3] | II* |
| Red House School Chapel 54°00′25″N 1°11′35″W / 54.00708°N 1.19314°W |
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Early 17th century | The chapel is in brick with stone dressings, quoins, a stepped eaves course, and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys, open to the roof, and three bays. The south front contains a two-light mullioned window, above which thee three-light windows with cinquefoil heads. The west gable end contains a round-headed doorway with imposts and a keystone, and an inscription in brick above, and in the east gable end is a three-light Perpendicular window.[4][5] | II* |
| Church Farmhouse 54°00′21″N 1°13′29″W / 54.00572°N 1.22459°W |
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Late 18th century | The house is in brick, with a dentilled eaves course, and a pantile roof with brick kneelers and raised gable ends. There are two storeys and three bays. The doorway has a fanlight, the windows are sashes, and all are under elliptical arches.[6] | II |
| Rosemead Farmhouse 54°00′19″N 1°13′40″W / 54.00536°N 1.22777°W |
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Late 18th century | The house is in brick, and has a pantile roof with stone coping and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and two bays. The central doorway has a pediment, and the windows are sashes, those on the ground floor under elliptical arches.[7] | II |
| The Red House 54°00′26″N 1°11′37″W / 54.00709°N 1.19363°W |
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1864 | The house, at one time a school, incorporating earlier features, it is in brick, with stone dressings, quoins, a floor band, and a Westmorland slate roof with gable coping and shaped kneelers. The main front has two storeys and attics, and eight bays. Two of the bays project, and are gabled, and on the front are three massive chimney stacks. The left gable bay contains a doorway with a Tudor arch, most of the windows are transomed, and in the attics are three flat-roofed dormers.[2][8] | II |
| Marston Moor Signal Box 53°59′05″N 1°13′20″W / 53.98460°N 1.22217°W |
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1910 | The signal box was built by the Southern Division of the North Eastern Railway. It is in timber, with horizontal weatherboarding, on a brick plinth, and has a Welsh slate roof. There is a single storey with continuous glazing on the front and gable ends, and the entrance is in the west gable. The roof overhangs, and there are plain bargeboards, and spiked-ball finials with ball pendants.[9] | II |
References
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Citations
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[edit]- Historic England, "Church of All Saints, Moor Monkton (1293654)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 June 2025
- Historic England, "Red House School Chapel, Moor Monkton (1190840)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 22 June 2025
- Historic England, "Church Farmhouse, Moor Monkton (1315359)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 June 2025
- Historic England, "Rosemead Farmhouse, Moor Monkton (1150381)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 22 June 2025
- Historic England, "The Red House, Moor Monkton (1315358)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 June 2025
- Historic England, "Marston Moor Signal Box, Moor Monkton (1412060)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 21 June 2025
- Historic England (21 July 2024), Listed Buildings, retrieved 21 June 2025
- Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.