Follifoot is a civil parish in the former Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 20 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the village of Follifoot and the surrounding area. The most important building in the parish is Rudding Park House, which is listed together with associated structures in the garden and grounds. Most of the other listed buildings are houses and associated structures, and the rest include a wayside cross, an animal pound, a set of stocks, a milepost, a church, a chapel and a telephone kiosk.
The village cross was restored in the 19th century. It consists of a square tapering column surmounted by a cross with a small sculpture of the Crucifixion. It stands on a moulded circular base on three square steps, and it has a similar moulded cap.[2]
The animal pound is in gritstone. It is circular with a diameter of about 7 metres (23 ft), and the walls are between 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) and 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. On the north side is an opening with a wooden gate.[3]
The stocks were restored in 1957, since when they have been enclosed in a shelter with iron railings. The stocks are in wood, and consist of two posts supporting panels with two pairs of holes. There are two iron staples with loops for padlocks.[4]
The house, later divided into three houses, is in gritstone, and has a stone slate roof with stone coping, and two storeys. The central section has three bays, and contains a doorway with a chamfered surround, and mullioned windows with hood moulds. It is flanked by lower three-bay sections.[5]
Two cottages combined into a house, it is in gritstone, with sandstonequoins, and a stone slate roof with stone gablecoping and shaped kneelers. There are two storeys and four bays, and a later single-storey extension at the rear. The second bay contains double doors in an architrave, in the outer bays are bow windows, and the other windows are sashes in architraves. In the rear extension is a re-set doorway with a moulded surround and a dated lintel.[6]
The milepost on the northwest side of Rudding Lane is in stone with a square plan. On each face is a carved pointing hand and the distance to various locations. On the southeast front is an iron hinge spindle.[7]
The garden wall and bee boles are in sandstone and magnesian limestone. The wall is about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in) high and 8 metres (26 ft) long. It contains eight bee boles, consisting of square recesses about 60 centimetres (24 in) wide and 30 centimetres (12 in) deep.[8]
The house is in gritstone, with quoins, and a Westmorlandslate roof with shaped kneelers and stone gablecoping. There are two storeys and three bays, and single-storey wings under catslide roofs. The central doorway has been converted into a window with an incised lintel, above which is a round window with a plain surround. The other windows are sashes with channelled lintels, and in the wings they are horizontally-sliding.[9]
The house is in gritstone, with quoins, a floor band, and a stone slate roof with shaped kneelers and stone gablecoping. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with a fanlight and a hood, and the windows on the front are sashes with channelled lintels and stone sills. At the rear is a doorway flanked by cantedbay windows.[11]
The house is in sandstone with an extension in grey gritstone, and a Westmorlandslate roof with shaped kneelers and stone coping. There are two storeys, two bays, and a single-storey single-bay extension to the right. The main block has quoins, and a central doorway in Classical style. The windows are sashes with architraves, and channelled lintels, one dated.[12]
A country house, later a hotel, in gritstone with a Westmorlandslate roof. There are two storeys, a main block with fronts of 13 and seven bays., and a four-bay rear wing. The east front has floor and sill bands, a mouldedeavescornice, a blocking course and a hipped roof. In the centre is a portico on three steps with four Tuscan columns and a plain entablature. This is flanked by two-storey three-bay bow windows, and all the windows are sashes. There are also bow windows on each return and at the rear.[13][14]
The stables, later converted for other uses, are in gritstone, with Westmorlandslate roofs, and a single storey. There are two ranges at right angles. The main range has three bays, an eavescornice, a blocking course and a hipped roof, and it contains sash windows. On the roof is a clock, and a bellcote with a lead roof. The other range is lower, and contains a round-arched opening and a triangular pediment. A wall connects the former stables, the house and the garden.[13][15]
The buildings are in stone and consist of a central round-arched gateway flanked by flat-roofed lodges and a wall. The arch has a mouldedarchivolt, Ionic columns, a plain entablature, a dentilledcornice and a moulded blocking course. The lodges have one storey and one bay, and each lodge contains a sash window, a moulded cornice and a blocking course. The wall is curved, with plain coping, and square piers with shallow pyramidal caps, and the gates are in wrought iron.[16]
At the entrance to the grounds are wrought iron gates, flanked by stone piers about 4 metres (13 ft) high. Each pier has a projecting plinth, and is surmounted by a massive bull's head in a coronet. The flanking walls are about 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high with heavy capping, and there are outer piers with caps and shallow pyramid tops.[17]
Between the former rose garden and kitchen garden are wrought iron gates and a decorated semicircular overthrow. The flanking square brick piers are about 4 metres (13 ft) high, and each pier has stepped coping and a ball finial. The garden wall is in brick with stone coping, and is about 60 metres (200 ft) long.[18]
The church is in gritstone with sandstone dressings and a slate roof. It consists of a nave, a south porch, and a chancel with a small north vestry. On the west gable is a gabled bellcote with one round-headed arch. The porch is gabled and contains an entrance with a pointed arch and a hood mould, and the windows are lancets.[19][20]
The vase in the garden, brought here from The Crystal Palace in the 1950s, is in marble on a brick plinth, and is about 3 metres (9.8 ft) high. It has a moulded base, a filleted stem, and a fluted cap with a band containing two female masks. The rim is out-turned, and has scrolls and swags.[21][22]
The K6 type telephone kiosk was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[25]
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