Old Vicarage, Helmsley

The Old Vicarage is a historic building in Helmsley, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The vicarage was commissioned by Charles Gray, the Vicar of All Saints' Church, Helmsley. Gray was known for training new clergy, and wanted to large vicarage in order to accommodate both himself and his trainees. He commissioned Temple Moore to design a building, which was completed in about 1900. It is in the Queen Anne style, in contrast to Moore's usual Gothic. In 1974, the building became the headquarters of the North York Moors National Park Authority, and the vicar moved to Canons Garth. The building was grade II listed in 1985. In 2024, the authority announced plans to move to a smaller, purpose-built headquarters, and to convert the Old Vicarage into housing. The building is constructed of sandstone, and has a tile roof with gable coping and shaped kneelers. It has two storeys and an attic, and seven bays. On the front is a French window, and the windows are sashes, in the ground floor with cambered heads. In the attic are dormers containing sashes.

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Helmsley

Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Ryedale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale of Pickering. Helmsley is situated on the River Rye on the A170 road, 14 miles (23 km) east of Thirsk, 13 miles (21 km) west of Pickering and some 24 miles (39 km) due north of York. The southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park passes through Helmsley along the A170 road so that the western part of the town is within the National Park. The settlement grew around its position at a road junction and river crossing point. Helmsley is a compact town, retaining its medieval layout around its market place with more recent development to the north and south of its main thoroughfare, Bondgate. It is a historic town of considerable architectural character whose centre has been designated as a conservation area. The town is associated with the Earls of Feversham, whose ancestral home Duncombe Park was built overlooking Helmsley Castle. The Feversham Monument stands in the market place, along with the Helmsley Market Cross. The town is a popular tourist centre and has won gold medals in the Large Village category of Yorkshire in Bloom for three years. The town square is a meeting place for motorcyclists as it is at the end of the B1257 road from Stokesley, which is a favourite with bikers. The Cleveland Way National Trail starts at Helmsley, and follows a horseshoe loop around the North York Moors National Park and Yorkshire coast for 110 miles (180 km) to Filey. The remains of Helmsley Castle, which was destroyed in the Civil War, loom over the town.

Crown Inn, Helmsley

The Crown Inn is a historic building in Helmsley, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was probably constructed in two stages in the mid 17th century, and was used as a public house from the start. It was first recorded as the Crown Inn in the early 18th century, owned by the Sandwith family. In 1742, they sold the freehold to Thomas Duncombe. Part of the building was then demolished, and in the 20th century it was refurbished in an ahistoric style, but these changes were reversed in the early 21st century. The building was grade II listed in 1985. In 2016, it was converted into a shop, operated by FatFace. The building is constructed of whitewashed rendered limestone with partial moulding below the eaves, and a pantile roof. It has two storeys and an attic, three bays, the left bay projecting slightly. The doorway to the right has fluted pilasters and an open pediment. The windows are a mix of casements and horizontally-sliding sashes and in the attic are three dormers. Inside are several original 17th century doors, which are elaborately carved.

Canons Garth

Canons Garth is a historic building in Helmsley, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was built in the late 14th century as a hall house with a cross passage and a rear aisle. It was possibly built for the canons of Kirkham Abbey. In the 17th century, a wing was added to the left, the cross passage removed and a central porch entrance created. Alterations by Temple Moore in 1889 included the creation of a chapel and study, and the replacement of all the windows. The house was restored in 1975, when the porch was rebuilt. In the early 20th century, the house served as a retreat for the Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor. In about 1970, it became the parsonage for All Saints' Church, Helmsley, but it was sold off in 2011. The house has been grade II* listed since 1955. The ground floor of the house is in sandstone, the upper parts are timber framed, and the roof is tiled. It has two storeys and attics, and the house consists of a main range and projecting cross-wings, all gabled. The windows are casements, and in the attic are gabled dormers. In front, there is a doorway and walls. Inside, the hall has a fireplace, and the passage has what may be a built-in salt box. The chapel has Mediaeval floor tiles, brought from Rievaulx Abbey, while the study has a 16th-century fireplace, brought from Helmsley Castle. The roof structure is original; it includes a base cruck, something found elsewhere in northern England only at Baxby Manor; and it is topped by a tall, square, crown post structure.

The Black Swan, Helmsley

The Black Swan is a historic hotel in Helmsley, a town in North Yorkshire, in England The oldest part of the hotel is a timber-framed building of the late 16th century. It was a high-status, two-storey house facing the town's market place, with a parlour wing extending back from the left gable. An early 18th-century house was built to its right, and then in the early 19th-century, a third house was built between the two. It was operating as a coaching inn by the early 19th century, and is often thought to be the Helmsley Inn praised enthusiastically by Dorothy Wordsworth in her journal. The building was grade II listed in 1955. In 2021, the hotel was refurbished by its owners, The Inn Collection Group, and celebrated the reopening by installing a temporary ice rink. In 2023, it temporarily served as the town's post office, after the convenience store previously hosting it unexpectedly closed. The earliest part of the hotel is timber framed and underbuilt with sandstone, and it has a tile roof. It has two storeys, a two-bay hall range, and a gabled cross wing on the left. It contains a doorway and casement windows. To the right is the 19th-century section, which is in rusticated sandstone with a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, and it contains sash windows. Further to the right is the 18th-century part which is in sandstone with a Welsh slate roof, three storeys and four bays. The doorway has engaged Tuscan columns, a blocked fanlight and an open pediment. In the ground floor are canted bay windows, and the upper floors contain casement windows, those in the middle floor with wedge lintels. In front of the whole of the hotel are plain wrought iron railings. The interior is largely altered, but the 16th-century hall retains visible beams including a massive bressumer.