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Thorpe Prebend House

A Grade II* Listed Building in Ripon, North Yorkshire

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Latitude: 54.1339 / 54°8'1"N

Longitude: -1.5205 / 1°31'13"W

OS Eastings: 431430

OS Northings: 470997

OS Grid: SE314709

Mapcode National: GBR KNTM.MW

Mapcode Global: WHC7V.MC57

Plus Code: 9C6W4FMH+GR

Entry Name: Thorpe Prebend House

Listing Date: 27 May 1949

Last Amended: 19 March 1984

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1295988

English Heritage Legacy ID: 330065

ID on this website: 101295988

Location: Bondgate, North Yorkshire, HG4

County: North Yorkshire

District: Harrogate

Civil Parish: Ripon

Built-Up Area: Ripon

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Ripon Cathedral Parish with Littlethorpe

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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Description


SE 3170 RIPON HIGH SAINT AGNESGATE
5/5
27.5.49 (south side)

Thorpe Prebend House
GV [(formerly listed as
The City Museum (Thorpe
Prebend House)]

II*

Mid-C17, with some internal alterations of circa 1700. Although the plan seems
old-fashioned for this date it is a similar plan to that adopted for the Old Deanery
circa 1660-70. But, since the prebends of the reconstituted College were
non-territorial its name suggests that it is, at the least a rebuilding of one of the
mediaeval prebendaries houses. It consists of a hall range and 2 projecting wings on
river (south) side, which have catslide roofs towards the centre.

Roughcast, apparently over brick with ashlar dressings. Pitched pantile and stone
slate roofs. Coped gable on cut stone kneelers which once had finials on them. Two
storeys and attics. Moulded strings and various moulded window cornices of same
profile, unrelated to many of the present windows.

Hall range of four bays: C18 sashes with glazing bars, and some C19 casements and
Yorkshire casements with glazing bars. West wing has French windows and mid C19
2-storey canted bay: east side of west wing has 2 attic dormers and one semi-dormer.
The street (north) front has various C18 sashes with glazing bars, and one mid C19
door with 6 fielded panels, oblong fanlight and wooden Tuscan doorcase. Massive
projecting chimneybreast with tall diagonally-placed stacks. Two projecting
chimneybreasts at west end (the stack, though separated, are not diagonally placed),
with a later addition built in between.

The east wing has various (internal) remnants of a timber frame. This may, therefore,
be part of the earlier house, probably mediaeval or early C16, of the prebendaries of
Thorpe.

Interior. C17 features include hall fireplace, with a chamfered 4-centred arch; the
wainscotting of the rooms on both floors of the west wing, though as these rooms have
C19 windows, this wainscotting must be re-set; and a chimneypiece with an elaborate
overmantel in the north-west first floor room.

C18 features include the elm staircase, which has a closed string, plain newels with a
cut scrolled console to lowest newel, and double-twisted spiral balusters (features
typical of a circa 1700). Room above hall has fielded panelling, overmantel with
moulded shoulders of surround and chimneypiece with simple egg-and-dart architrave.
Bolection-moulded chimneypiece in first floor south-west room.

Thorpe Prebend is in some ways more typical of a Pennine manor house, than of the Vale
of York; though, unlike its Pennine contemporaries, it is built of brick and stone.


Listing NGR: SE3143670997

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