Nawton Tower - Izeria

Nawton Tower is a country house in Nawton, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The house was designed by Robert Richardson Banks and Charles Barry Jr. in the Gothic Revival style and completed in 1855. As originally built, it was a tall house with castellation. In 1930, it was heavily altered, reducing its height and removing the Gothic elements, to give it a neoclassical appearance. The tower's gardens retain several 18th-century features, including a portico and two temples which are all grade II listed, terrace and statues. There are formal walks and woodland including azaleas and rhododendrons. The Doric Temple is a garden pavilion in sandstone with a semicircular plan. Shallow steps lead up to a Doric portico, distyle in antis, with a plain segmental pediment, and a hemispherical roof. Inside, there is hexagonal stone paving. The Ionic Temple is built of limestone with a pantile roof and a rectangular plan. A flight of narrow steps leads up to an Ionic tetrastyle portico. This has piers with shaped imposts, and a richly carved pediment with a cartouche in voussoirs. The Garden Portico is also built of limestone. It has a porch with two Ionic columns, a pulvinated frieze, a modillion cornice and a pediment. The door has panels of eight raised lozenges in octagonal surrounds in a plain doorframe.

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Sleightholme Dale

Sleightholme Dale, sometimes spelt in one word, Sleightholmedale, is a valley in the North York Moors in North Yorkshire, England. The dale is the middle section of the valley of Hodge Beck (a tributary of the River Dove), below Bransdale and above Kirkdale. 28.7 hectares (71 acres) of the dale is designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, notified in 1987. The site includes woodland and fen, and includes a heronry, one of the largest in North Yorkshire.

Pockley

Pockley is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is about 1 mile north-east of Helmsley turning north from the A170 road. Its short, winding lane passes six thatched cottages in a quarter mile before turning back toward the A170 and its junction at Beadlam and Nawton. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The Grade II-listed St John the Baptist's Church was built in 1870 and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott or his son. The name Pockley probably derives from the Old English Pocalēah, meaning 'Poca's wood or clearing'.

St John the Baptist's Church, Pockley

St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Pockley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the late 19th century, residents of Pockley worshipped at All Saints' Church, Helmsley. In 1870, a church was built, to a design credited to either George Gilbert Scott or George Gilbert Scott Jr. The building was grade II listed in 1985. The church is built of limestone with sandstone dressings and a Westmorland slate roof. It consists of a nave, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. At the west end is a central buttress carrying a bellcote with four openings. Inside, there is a 13th-century font, which was moved from All Saints in Helmsley. The chancel screen and other furnishings were provided by Temple Moore in 1898-99 and rood beam figures by Lang of Oberammergau. The church's unusual heating system was based on a Roman hypocaust. Warm air came through underfloor ducts from a coke-fired stove beneath the church. Originally the fuel for the stove was carried through a 25-foot brick-lined tunnel on a miniature railway which is still in existence but rarely used. The hot air heating system was restored in 2012 and for the first time in over 60 years the church is now warm for services.

Hold Caldron Mill

Hold Caldron Mill is a historic building in Nawton, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A watermill was located at this location on the Hodge Beck in the 17th century, but it burned down in 1704. It was rebuilt in 1734 by Matthew Foord, the date inscribed on a stone in the current cornmill. Another datestone reading 1784 was removed from the site, while the current mill and attached house were built in the early 19th century. They were originally separate, and the house was later extended, to adjoin the mill. The mill stopped operating in 1920, its last miller being the uncle of Herbert Read, who used it as inspiration for the mill in his novel, The Green Child. The building was grade II listed in 2004. The mill and house are built of stone, with quoins, a pantile roof, and two storeys and attics. The house has four bays and a double depth plan, and contains two doorways with fanlights, and small-pane casement windows. The mill also has four bays, and contains doorways, a loading door, shuttered windows, and a re-set datestone. Inside the mill is a 15 feet (4.6 m) waterwheel, and machinery reaching to the roof.