| Arkendale | |
| Listed properties | |
| Grange Barn | Barn, Stable and Hayloft |
| Holgate Bank | Barn; Barn and stable |
| Long Street | Dale House Barn |
| Marhead Balk, Low Arkendale | Pond House Farmhouse; Dovecote; Granary and stable |
| Reins | Long Cottage |
| Other interesting properties in the village of Arkendale | |
| The Old School House | This building was the village school from 1867 to 1947, when the children transferred to Staveley Primary School. Thereafter it was used for storage and as a chicken house until it was extended and converted to a house for Emily Nussey, widow of John Nussey (Lord of the Manor), in the 1950's. A voluntary school with 35 children attending was being run by 1811. Three years later numbers had increased to 40 and the master was paid quarterly by parents. In 1818 numbers had dropped to 20 in summer and about eight in winter. By 1821 the school had closed again and presumably children were sent to Knaresborough schools, when parents could afford to do so. The Arkendale school reopened sometime before 1831, when there were 34 pupils and the same number attending Sunday school. A new Sunday school was established by the clergyman George Creighton in 1847, with 42 children attending the church day school and 28 the Sunday afternoon school. |
| Church Barn | Built in the first half of the 19th century as barn and cattle sheds. Before conversion it was owned by the Harrisons of Arkendale Hall, who planned to turn it into a gatehouse for Holgate Bank Grange. This plan was dropped in favour of creating the present house. |
| Holgate Bridge Farm | Dating back to the 18th century, the present house was renovated in the 1960's after it had been used as a grain store. |
| Spring Cottage | Originally two cottages, dating from the early 1800's, they were knocked into one in the 1960's and extended in 1982. |
| Measum House | Built in the beginning of the 19th or possibly late 18th century, but after Sunnyside Farm house, next door. The west wall and north wall are built of narrow handmade bricks, probably reused, whereas the front elevation and the wash house in the yard are of a wider brick, probably new at the time of building. Occupied by the Marshall family since 1914, firstly as tenants of Mrs Ann Walker of Goldsborough, then as owners. Immediate previous tenant Sarah Thompson and some of her children, who exchanged properties with the Marshalls for a house now long demolished, where May Cottage is sited. The name of the house comes from the field which belonged to the house in the days when it was a small holding. It has been suggested that the name may have been a surname, but no one of this name occurs in records of the locality. The name occurs on the deeds and was originally Musum (latin version). (Mussa = moss or bogg and mussetum = a mossy place.) Measum, or Musum Close, which was situated to the north of Hill Wood in Spitlands Lane had a gutter run across the corner and with the shade from the wood may have been a field prone to the growth of moss. |
| Mar Chapel | In July 1824 the Wesleyan Methodists concluded their purchase from Joseph Inman of Measum House, Low Arkendale, of land, 10 yards by 8 yards, "on which land the Methodist Chapel has lately been erected". It was registered on behalf of the Wesleyans as a Chapel in May 1827 by one of the trustees, John Milthorpe of Sunnyside. The other trustees were farmers Matthew Curtis, James Burrell, John Sadler and William Inman. There were 40 free seats and 60 other sittings. The 1851 census, taken on 31 March, reveals there was a congregation of 40 in the afternoon and 30 in the evening. John Sadler, an ancestor of Harold Sadler, was the steward. The Chapel seems to have been run by visiting ministers; indeed, in 1854 it was again certified as a place of worship by Thomas Pearson, a minister, of Ripon. The registration of the Chapel as a place of worship was cancelled in 1953. It was converted to a garage for Mar House, and later to a private dwelling. |
| Old Chapel | This building, next to Bryan Lodge, was built in 1861. In June 1861 the owner of Bryan Lodge, Nary Fletcher, sold 63 square yards of land for the erection of a Chapel. The trustees who bought the land on behalf of the Primitive Methodists were Matthias Imeson and Thomas Whitehouse, both tailors of Knaresborough, William Houston and Jonathon Morris, both labourers of Staveley, John Dawson, a farmer of Marton cum Grafton, Matthew Umpleby, blacksmith, Bryan Derbyshire, cordwainer, James Weatherhead and John Gill farmers, all of Arkendale. The Chapel was officially certified as a place of worship in July 1866 by Richard Davies, a minister of Briggate, Knaresborough. Again, no separate official records for the Chapel have come to light though there are references to Arkendale in circuit records. Over the years there were many services held, the harvest thanksgiving and fruit banquets being so popular that sometimes, as in 1886, many were unable to gain admission to the little chapel, even though there was extra seating on the balcony. The Sunday School Anniversary was another popular event. In the early 1900's annual camp meetings attracted large congregations. The record of the building as a place of worship was cancelled in October 1935. It now forms part of Bryan Lodge. |
| White Lodge | Together with its outbuildings and garden, this occupies a site with an area of 1.38 acres. It is part of what was a 2-acre smallholding and was previously known as White Hall. The original house is thought to have been built sometime in the 1700's. In 1970/71 the then owner, the artist and architect Mr J B Dinsdale, added a considerable extension which included the tower. |
| The Old Reading Room | ? |
| The Old Post Office | ? |
| Coneythorpe | |
| Shortshill Lane | Old Cottage Farmhouse |
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