Worton Hall
Has been described as a Possible Fortified Manor House
There are major building remains
| Name | Worton Hall |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Yorkshire |
| Modern Authority | North Yorkshire |
| 1974 Authority | North Yorkshire |
| Civil Parish | Bainbridge |
House. Dated 1600. For Anthony Besson, the founder of Yorebridge Grammar School, and an attorney of the Star Chamber. Rubble, stone slate roof. 2-cell end-entry house with added 2-storey porch. 2 storeys, 3:1 first floor-windows. Quoins. Mullion windows. Ground floor: 3-light window with ovolo moulding on chamfer and hoodmould; 6-light double-chamfered window with ovolo moulding and hoodmould. First floor: 4-, 3-, 3-light hollow- chamfered windows. Central corniced stack. To right, porch set back from line of house: board door in chamfered quoined surround with slab lintel, and on first floor a 3-light chamfered-mullion window with hoodmould. End entry doorway inside porch: board door in ashlar chamfered surround with lintel inscribed "ANNO DOMINE 1600 A.B.". Interior:in right-hand ground- floor room, segmental arch of 2 richly-moulded orders, part of either fireplace-and-doorway group or triple fireplace group. (Listed Building Report)
The house has a tower at its east end, with a projecting semi-circular stair turret at the rear. Most of the visible features of house and tower are of seventeenth-century date and later. (Ryder 1982 - in list of fortified manor houses)
Not scheduled
This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law
Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
Images Of England
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | SD955901 |
| Latitude | 54.3065414428711 |
| Longitude | -2.07031011581421 |
| Eastings | 395524 |
| Northings | 490105 |
