A: List Descriptions

APPENDIX A LIST DESCRIPTIONS

RABY CASTLE List entry Number: 1338625

Date first listed: 07-Jan-1952

Castle towers with curtain wall and adjacent buildings. Early/mid C14, probably incorporating earlier buildings; licence to crenellate 1379. Partial demolition and rebuilding c.1620; extensive C18 alterations and additions by D. Garrett, J. Paine, J. Carr; c.1814 by Joseph Browne; 1844-8 by William Burn; 1864 and later by Austin and Johnson. Property of Neville family until forfeited to Crown after 6th Earl of Westmorland took part in 1569 Rising of the North; 1626 acquired by Sir Henry Vane, whose descendants became successively Baron Barnard (Thomas Vane, in 1698), Earl of Darlington (Henry Vane, in 1754) and Duke of Cleveland (William Harry Vane, in 1833).

Coursed blocks of millstone grit (Bulmer’s Tower) and limestone with plinth, some quoins, and ashlar dressings; roofs Lakeland slate. Irregular plan: 9 perimeter towers, from north clockwise: Clifford’s, Kitchen, Mount Raskelf, Chapel, Bulmer’s, Octagon, Joan’s, Neville Gateway and Watch: linking buildings and wall; Keep in yard, attached to south-west corner of Kitchen tower; smaller yard beside Kitchen. Apart from Octagon and pentagonal Bulmer’s, towers are rectangular. Great Hall runs along east side of main yard, linking Kitchen and Octagon towers. Principal entrance is Neville Gateway in west front, which has 4-storey splayed projections flanking 4-centred-arched gateway, with trefoil-pendant decoration, under machicolations and renewed 2-light window; Garter ribbons round badges of Neville (John de Neville, Knight of Garter 136-9, died 1388) his second wife Elizabeth Latymer, and St. George’s cross, in band below top machicolations. Flanking turrets have Garrett quatrefoils on ground and loops on top floors, with C19 lights on other floors. This front of Neville gate is an addition corresponding to front extension of John’s Tower at right, to which it is linked by 2-storey medieval wall with L-plan C18 one-storey additions. Joan’s Tower originally 3 storeys, raised to 4 by Carr; 3 windows on west front, the left in a projecting bay with single trefoil-headed light on each floor; 2 right bays have 2-light windows, those on first-floor with cusped ogee-headed lights and on second floor with trefoil heads. To left of Neville gate a 3-storey, 4-bay section links Clifford’s Tower, 5 storeys with irregular fenestration and C18 door, with high onebay Watch Tower. 3-storey section has ‘Old Servants’ Hall’ on ground floor, probably former guard room, with trefoil-headed lights; 3 similar first-floor and 4 paired second-floor windows.

North elevation on left return has heavily machicolated curtain wall linking Clifford’s and Kitchen towers, with wide low-2-centred arch inserted. South elevation on right return has 2-storey 4-bay range with paired lights linking Joan’s Tower with Octagon, Burn’s 1845 construction replacing Carr’s incomplete round tower, on site of medieval south tower destroyed by fire mid C18. Burn’s high 5-light transomed window in dining room to right of Octagon, and ante- library extruded addition to left; and at east end the 5-stage tapered Bulmer’s Tower with left stair-turret, which has shouldered head to ground-floor entrance, and varied fenestration.

East front shows 2 initial ‘b’s under head-stopped dripmoulds, John de Neville’s reference to his ancestor Bertram Bulmer, on top floor of tower. C19 windows in 3-bay link to Chapel Tower, which has high C19 doorway replacing medieval barbican, of which fragments survive in Raby House Farm and The Folly (q.v.). 2 tall turrets flank recessed 2-light chapel window with reticulated tracery under machicolation. To right of chapel a 3-storey bay links to Mount Raskelf; in link a door and 2-light window have hollow-chamfered cusped surrounds. Mount Raskelf has 3 set-back storeys, each with one window of paired cusped lights. Set back at right is massive kitchen tower of 3 set- back storeys with 2 first-floor windows and central octagonal roof lantern, raised by Carr. Passage through Neville gate has ribbed vault on slender halfoctagonal crenellated shafts, and guard-room doors with diagonally-stopped chamfers; inner earlier passage barrel-vaulted on chamfered ribs. Interior: Medieval structures little altered are kitchen, keep, and ‘Old Servants’ Hall’. Kitchen probably by John Lewyn: basement vaulted with 8 ribs springing from central octagonal pillar. Main floor has 4 widearched ovens. Blocked flight of steps on south (with C17 balustrade) leading towards Great Hall and giving access to passage in wall linking kitchen windows and roof on 2 pairs of segmental-arched ribs, the crossing framing central louvre. Keep, formerly with no external access, has 8-foot thick walls, with garderobes and wall chambers, original window openings, and vaulted ceilings. ‘Old Servants’ Hall’ in similar style but with 2-centred-arched vault. In Clifford’s Tower a medieval stair on segmental arches runs in the south wall from first floor to roof levels. In Bulmer’s Tower stair turret there are blocked medieval doors of several periods. Extensive C18 alterations include rooms on first floor of south range, with Palladian door to north corridor with key block inscribed HGV 1729, unattributed at time of survey. James Gibbs drawings exist for unexecuted work at Raby.

Garrett’s work of c.1745 includes state rooms in Clifford’s Tower, particularly the richly-decorated 3-apsed drawing room, with niches in the window apses, and the dining room, which have enriched mouldings on dados and 6-panel doors, and rococo stucco ceilings with modillion cornices. (Perritt was paid for in 1737 for plaster work; if Thomas Perritt it would be among his earliest work – he was made Freeman of York 1737/8. Other payments to 1753 were to Thomas Perritt and to Rose and Perritt). Garrett’s Hunters’ Gallery in Gothic style links Clifford’s and Watch Towers at first-floor level; it has head corbels and egg-and-dart moulded ogee arches, and lantern with intersecting broad glazing bars. Paine, restoring interior in mid C18, executed interior work including Gothic bedroom in Neville gateway, and several classical-style rooms.

Carr’s work beginning c,1767 included alterations and additions to domestic arrangements in kitchen yard, but most significantly the creation of a carriage- way through the castle from west to east, with necessary removal of ceilings and floors in great hall and in Chapel Tower. He inserted 2 rows of octagonal columns and false vaulting in the lower, now entrance hall, where visitors would alight; raised the vault of the east gate; and demolished the barbican to allow the exit of carriages.

Circa 1814 Joseph Browne enlarged the dining room in the south range, and encased the entrance hall pillars in red scagliola. Between 1843 and 1848 William Burn made extensive alterations, including a vigorous Jacobean-style drawing room in the Octagon Tower, and new roofs for the Great Hall and the Chapel.

Austin and Johnson’s work included a grand Jacobeanstyle north stair to the Baron’s Hall or Great Hall, and the renewal of many windows. In 1901 J.P. Pritchett restored the interior of the chapel and revealed medieval aumbry, sedilia and piscina, although below the present ground level; the west arcade of the chapel was filled with painted portraits. The chapel windows contain reset medieval glass from France and Flanders, C16 German and other heraldic glass.

Sources: J. Harvey, English Medieval Architects; J.F. Hodgson, ‘Raby in Three Chapters’, Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Vols III and IV (1880-89 and 1890-95) pp 49–122,

153-260; J.P. Pritchett ‘On Recent Discoveries in the Chapel of Raby Castle’ in Archaeological Aeliana 2, XXIV (1903’; A. Rowan; Raby Castle, Co. Durham; in Country Life, 10 and 17 July 1969, 1, 8 and 22 January 1970; A. Rowan ‘Gothick restoration at Raby Castle’ in Architectural History 15, 1972; Raby Castle guide book.

Listing NGR: NZ1292721770

NORTH GATEHOUSE AND WALLS ATTACHED ENCLOSING CASTLE; GATE HOUSE FORMERLY LISTED AS ‘PORTER’S LODGE’ List entry Number: 1338626

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Castle gatehouse and castle wall. C14, with C18 alterations by J. Carr. Coursed sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings; wall of similar materials. 2-storey gatehouse. Wide segmental portcullis arch under corbelled balcony; 2-light window above with cusped ogee heads; machicolations below top parapet with crenellations. Flanking turrets, narrower at left, crenellated, with square-headed chamfered surrounds to door at left, and to 3-foil-headed window at right. Machicolated returns to turrets. Life-size figures on battlements resited from east barbican, now demolished, and from guard tower. Flanking walls stepped down, with blind quatrefoil decoration, to lower turrets. From these the encircling wall, reduced to c. one metre above level of castle yard, tops retaining wall along inner edge of moat, with square projections, flat but-tresses, battered lower courses on south, and segmental-arched entrance from moat on south-east.

Listing NGR: NZ1288521834 TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 350 METRES WEST OF RABY CASTLE List entry Number: 1121784

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Temple folly. Probably third quarter C18, and possibly by D. Garrett. Sandstone ashlar; roof not visible. Gothick style. One storey, one wide bay. Projecting centre has steps up to Venetian opening with acanthus-capital quatrefoil columns and pilasters supporting cinquefoilcusped 2-centred arch and impost string. String continues over long side shaped panels; quatrefoil panels above string; parapet band with 5 banded blocks. String continues along returns. Some structural dam-age at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ1252021757

BATH HOUSE COTTAGE APPROXIMATELY 10 METRES NORTH OF BATH HOUSE List entry Number: 1121783

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Cottage. Third quarter C18. Render with tooled ashlar plinth, and ashlar dressings; roof pantile with stone eaves and ridge, and rendered chimneys. Gothick style. One storey, 3 bays. Door at right of central bay has patterned panels; 2 win-dows immediately to left, and sash in each outer bay, have 24 panes under 2-centred overlights, some with intersecting glazing bars and some blocked. Steeply-pitched hipped roof has slightly swept eaves, and 2 ridge chimneys.

Listing NGR: NZ1215421499 BATH HOUSE IN WOOD List entry Number: 1160046

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Bath house. Third quarter C18. Rendered sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and tooled plinth; roof not visible. Goth-ick style. One storey, 3 bays. High central 2-centred arched passageway and flanking boarded windows of similar shape under bud-finialled ogee dripmoulds in bays defined by ashlar pilasters with high Gothic panels; sill band; window aprons; heraldic crest over arch. Corbelled embattled parapet, interrupted by panelled gabled pilasters with spirelets, has small quatrefoil and loops in centre. Returns have similar windows under rectangular panels. Rear in similar style but with para-pet interrupted by ogee dripmould, containing large quatrefoil, over arch, and blind quatrefoils over windows. Interior of passage shows 6-panelled doors to dressing room at right and bathroom at left, with panelled reveals and architraves. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: NZ1214021469

FOOTBRIDGE APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTHEAST OF BATH HOUSE List entry Number: 1310742

Grade: II

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Bridge. Third quarter C18. Sandstone. Random rustication to voussoirs of low segmental arch supporting dwarf flat-topped parapets, slightly higher at centre of bridge.

Listing NGR: NZ1216721432 THE FOLLY IN RABY PARK List entry Number: 1121773

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Folly to Raby Castle. 1780 by J. Carr, incorporating medieval barbican arch and other fragments from Raby Castle. Coarse pinkish sandstone arch; other sections rubble or brick with ashlar dressings and quoins; dense vegetation obscures possible plinth. Gateway and 2-storey, one-bay towers linked by walls; right one-storey, one-bay addition in similar materi-als and style. Double-chamfered arch, on half-octagonal shafts with moulded capitals, in stone wall under brick string and parapet containing window with 4 trefoil- headed lights. Flanking turrets are rubble, and contain small openings with monolithic round heads, below string and truncated pierced pyramids. Flanking these are lower narrow rubble sections with quatrefoil openings. Walls, with windows with 3 trefoil-headed lights, link to towers with 2-light ground-floor windows and single light above in same style but with brick label moulds. Embattled parapet. Derelict at time of survey.

Source: A. Rowan, ‘Gothick Restoration at Raby’ in Architectural History, 15, 1971, fig. 21b.

Listing NGR: NZ1276623152

SOUTH ENTRANCE GATEWAY TO RABY CASTLE List entry Number: 1338629

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Piers and pedestrian archways. Probably early C19. Sandstone ashlar. 2 tall square piers, with plinths, top strings, cornices and low pyramidal coping, are flanked by short stretches of flat-coped wall each containing pedestrian arch with voussoirs. Gates removed at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ1313920739

NORTH LODGES TO RABY CASTLE, WITH NORTH QUADRANT WALL ATTACHED, AND GATES List entry Number: 1338604

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Castle gate lodges, piers, gates. C18, by J. Carr. Coursed squared sandstone with plinth, quoins and ashlar dressings; pan-tiled roof on rear extension, main roof not visible. Wall coursed squared sandstone. Gates wrought and cast iron. Gothic style. One-storey, one-bay lodges linked by pedestrian gateways to gatepiers. Embattled lodges have wide shuttered openings with flat stone sills and lintels in bowed full-height central projections; blind arrow loops in narrow corner sections. Parapet band continuous with flat coping of walls containing segmental-headed pedestrian gateways with voussoirs. Square gate piers have cross loops, obscured by notice boards, under projecting embattled parapets. Quadrant wall at-tached to north lodge has gabled coping and ends at stone stile for public footpath. Pedestrian and vehicle gates have scroll-headed principals; tied Gothic arcading in narrow panels; central horizontal panel with flower pattern; Jacobean-style headed square-section uprights. Some details missing at time of survey. Rear of lodges shows bowed projections similar to those at front. GAS HOUSE List entry Number: 1310898

Grade: II

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Gas house. Dated 1910 in panel in left gable, for Lord Barnard. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and brick chimneys. 2 storeys, 6 irregular bays, the end bays under gables to front. Right end bay projects and contains high round-headed double doors in alternateblock jambs and voussoirs; louvred chamfered slit in gable peak. Left end bay has chamfered square-headed surround to double doors; date Panel in gable peak. Large rectangular windows with glazing bars in ground floor between gables; loading door in third bay under gabled half-dormer; large square chimney rises from fifth bay with gabled louvred coping. Low, squareheaded dormers with glazing bars flank half-dormer. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: NZ1322121997

PIERS AND WALLS NORTH-EAST OF HUNTING STABLES, ATTACHED TO WALLED GARDEN Listing No. 1121782

Grade: II

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Piers and walls north-east of hunting stables attached to walled garden GV II Piers walls and railings. Late C18 and early C19 railings. Ashlar piers; coursed squared sandstone walls with wrought-iron railings. 2 square piers at entrance to stable ranges have plinths cornices and block copings. Low round-coped walls attached from straight sections flanking piers and long serpentine stretch enclosing stable yard (q.v.) to south of piers and connecting to cart horse stables (q.v.) to north of piers. Plain iron posts on these walls support plain iron railings. National Grid THE HUNTING STABLES, ATTACHED TO WALLED GARDEN List entry Number: 1160037

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Hunting stables. Probably third quarter C18. Colourwashed render with painted ashlar dressings; roof of graduated Lake-land slates with ashlar chimney. U-plan. One storey, 3, 6 and 3 bays. Boarded Dutch doors and 3-pane pivoting overlights in plain stone surrounds, at ends of each range and 2 at centre of long west range; similar surrounds to 6-pane windows, the top half pivoting. Low-pitched hipped roof has ridge ventilators with pointed-domed cowls. Small square banded chimney at rear of north range.

Listing NGR: NZ1293522011

BYRE HOUSE List entry Number: 1121779

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Estate worker’s house. Probably late C18. Painted render with ashlar dressings; roof-of graduated Lakeland slates with ashlar chimneys. Gothick style. 2 storeys, 2 wide bays. Filleted boarded door at right of first bay, with diamond-shaped glass panel, in hollowchamfered Tudor-arched surround. Similar surrounds to late C19 sashes. Embattled parapet with chamfered ashlar coping almost conceals roof; banded end chimneys. Moulded round hopper head at centre of parapet and renewed cast-iron rainwater pipe.

Listing NGR: NZ1298622042 FORMER CART HORSE STABLES ATTACHED TO BYRE HOUSE List entry Number: 1310780

Grade: II

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Stables. Late C18. Colourwashed rubble, with ashlar dressings; roofs Welsh slate and dark grey asbestos tiles, with stone and red tile ridges. L-plan. 2-storey, 6-bay range behind Byre House faces north with onestorey, 6-bay east range attached. North elevation of main block has 3 boarded doors, the first 2 with vent slits and band hinges, under flat stone lintels; the third under segmental arch. Projecting stone sills to 4-pane lights at right of each door, and to 6 square first-floor boarded pitching holes. Hipped roof. Right return has wide side steps to boarded loft door. East range has 4 boarded Dutch doors, 3 partly-glazed hit-and-miss openings, and 4-pane light.

Listing NGR: NZ1298222051

STABLE BLOCK NORTH-EAST OF STABLES AND COACHHOUSE List entry Number: 1310772

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Stables, now storage rooms. Probably third quarter C18. Colour-washed render and ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 13 bays. Plain stone surrounds to 5 boarded doors, in second, third, fourth, seventh, and tenth bays; similar surrounds to boarded ground floor openings and 13 square loft openings with hit-andmiss slats. Hipped roof. Side steps on returns to firstfloor doors, those on left return in 2 flights with plain wrought-iron balustrade. Dutch barn (q.v.) adjoins to centre rear.

Listing NGR: NZ1295122072

DUTCH BARN C. 300 METRES NORTH OF STABLES AND COACH HOUSE List entry Number: 1121777

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Dutch barn. Probably third quarter C18. Sandstone ashlar; graduated slate roof. One high storey, 10 bays. Recessed round-headed open-arcade on square piers with impost bands; 2 arches in returns on similar piers. Hipped roof. Interior has 2 central brick piers with alternate headers-and-spaces, and narrow round arch at foot of each side, providing ventilation at heart of stack.

Listing NGR: NZ1293422078

RIDING SCHOOL C.10 METRES NORTH OF STABLES AND COACH-HOUSE List entry Number: 1121778

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Riding school, now storage building. Probably third quarter C18; possibly by J. Carr. Coarse pink sandstone blocks, with ashlar dressings; concrete-tiled roof. One high storey, 14 bays. South elevation has projecting stone sills to 14 small glazed lights with segmental heads in voussoirs with dripmould continuous with impost blocks. High wide segmental-headed arch with voussoirs on right return; rear has 14 low boarded doors, in surrounds similar to those on south. Interior shows sills of north doors c.O.8 metre above ground level.

Listing NGR: NZ1292622060 STABLES AND COACHHOUSE, WITH WALL AND MOUNTING-BLOCK ATTACHED List entry Number: 1121776

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Stables and coach house; now partly converted to restaurant. Probably third quarter C18 by J. Carr. Colourwashed render with painted ashlar dressings and plinth; roof graduated Lakeland slates with ashlar chimneys. Rubble wall. 2-storey, 5-bay coach house and 2-storey, 2-bay pavilions linked by one-storey, 8-bay stables; 17 bays in all.

Coach house has 5 high entrances in arcade with impost band and voussoirs; boarded double doors under semicircular ventilation panels; first-floor band; 5 square windows above with projecting stone sills, plain stone surrounds and arch-headed glazing bars. Similar treatment to pavilions with large, partly slatted and partly glazed ground-floor windows in place of arcades. One-storey ranges have similar partly-glazed openings, and 6- and 9-panel doors with 4-pane overlights, in architraves with bracketed cornices, in second bay from each end; eaves band continuous with first-floor band of pavilions and coach house. Roofs hipped over 2-storey blocks, with banded ashlar chimneys rising from side eaves. Returns of pavilions each have door under bracketed hood, and partly-cantilevered L-plan steps, with simple wrought-iron balustrade, to 6-panel first-floor doors in plain stone surrounds.

Interior of right one-storey stable block has ramped stall partitions, with hay racks in rear arcade over mangers.

Rubble wall with round coping curves from right return to Riding School (q.v.).

2-stepped mounting block of colourwashed stone to left of central block.

Listing NGR: NZ1290222043 GARDEN WALLS AND GATEWAY WITH FIG HOUSE ATTACHED List entry Number: 1121780

Grade: II

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Garden walls and gateway. Mid C18, with 1894 dated gateway transferred 1937 from Shipbourne. Walls and gateway brick,with ashlar dressings and coping; right return rubble. Brick, ashlar and glass fig house. Serpentine front wall c.230 metres long,with central gateway and fig house to left of gate; returns and 2 inner walls extend c.60 metres to rear, except for right return which abuts former hunting stables (q.v.), rear wall to central and right garden. Walls c.3 metres high, with flat stone coping, interrupted by central Jacobeanstyle gateway with ball-finialled shaped gable; coat of arms, initials EVB and date 1894 in gable. Fig house to left of gateway has stone-coped walls supporting C19 greenhouse roof. Round-headed stone arches at right end of front wall, and in inner walls near front; segmental-headed stone arches near front of returns.

Listing NGR: NZ1287122018

CISTERN IN WALLED GARDEN List entry Number: 1310785

Grade: II

Date first listed: 30-Sep-1987

Water cistern. Dated 1746 for CC. Lead. Square cistern c.one metre high with moulded strapwork decoration on front, containing letters CC in round panel, and numbers of date in 4 corners.

Listing NGR: NZ1283222029 RABY PARK HOUSE AND BUTLER COTTAGE AND OUTBUILDINGS List entry Number: 1391549

House and attached cottage, 18th century. Part of a group of estate buildings which serviced Raby Castle. Coursed squared sandstone blocks with ashlar quoins and detailing, later stone chimney stacks and tiled and oversailing hipped and pitched roofs. PLAN: elongated linear plan with principal house at east, cottage and outshut attached to west. EXTERIOR: FRONT (South) ELEVATION to gardens with symmetrical principal house of 3 bays and 2 storeys above cellar; plinth. Central projecting bay with pedimented gable; steps up to central doorway with 6-panelled framed door, plain architrave and large rectangular fanlight with pediment over. Flanking ground floor window openings and 3 first floor window openings all incorporating later horned sash frames. Attached cottage, incorporating single storey service range which has been raised; 2 storeys and 2 bays with plain façade interrupted by 4 window openings incorporating horned sashes. Steps up to 6-panelled framed door with simple plain architrave and 3-light rectangular fanlight. The outbuildings comprise a single storey outshut containing sheds/ stores ending in pig sty with hen house over. REAR (North) ELEVATION: plain façade with plinth. Scattered fenestration, 2 original later 18th century stair windows of 24 panes; remainder of window frames are not original and blocked openings to cellars. House and cottage each accessed by plain rear doorways via stone steps. INTERIORS: Raby Park House: retains most of its original 18th century plan including central hall with principal ground and first floor rooms on south side overlooking gardens; main staircase to rear with cellar below. Many contemporary features with good survival of eighteenth century carpentry and joinery including panelled doors, surrounds and reveals. Unusual shutters to dining and sitting room, former adorned with thin mouldings to reflect Chinese fashion of the day, and the latter fold back into rebated panel within wall. Marble fireplace lintel decorated with fine palm leaves incorporated into dining room fireplace indicates work by quality estate craftsmen.

Staircase in original position, probably original with turned balusters, although upper landing has been raised and adapted; modern closed string to staircase. Butler Cottage, originally single storey service wing reflected in ground floor plan containing kitchen, larder with ceiling hooks and stone slab bench and possible butler’s room. Subsequently raised in height. Original features including panelled doors and architraves, shutters; cellar with wine bins. Fine dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and ramped handrail. Outbuilding with slab floor and corner fireplace. HISTORY: These two houses form part of a larger group of service and farm buildings set on an island of estate activity within the extensive parkland surrounding Raby Castle. The grouping of these buildings appears to be part of an overall estate plan to re-design the park of c. 1755-65. Joseph Spence was advising on the parkland landscaping and James Paine is said to have designed some of the estate buildings as well as having carried out alterations to the castle itself. Raby Park House is thought to have been built in the third quarter of the 18th century and Butler Cottage in the fourth quarter, the latter originally as a single storey service wing to the larger house. The finer dating of these buildings is however rather difficult as large estates such as this have invariably used and re-used interior features of different periods.

These two houses and attached outbuildings of 18th century date, form part of the wider Raby Estate. They retain their historic plan forms and preserve a large number of original features, some of which are particularly distinctive. They are of special architectural interest and their inclusion on the Statutory List is fully justified.

Selected Sources

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National Grid Reference: NZ 12761 22103 GARDENER’S HOUSE IN WALLED GARDEN List entry Number: 1121781

Grade: II

Date first listed: 14-Sep-1966

Estate house. Third quarter C18. Pebbledash render with ashlar dressings; rear wings pinkish sandstone rubble with quoins, and brick; Welsh slate roof. Gothick style. One storey, 3 bays and left 2-bay extension. Embattled front has gabled projecting centre with pointed-arched half-glazed door recessed in wider pointed arch; dentilled cornice string across foot of gable peak interrupted by pointed-arched attic window; pent outer bays, with parapets continuing from gable, contain similar Y-traceried window at right, and sash with glazing bars at left. Left extension has similar sash and inserted door.

Roof not visible from front; rear banded ashlar chimney.

Listing NGR: NZ1272322025