FORMER GAS HOUSE

FORMER GAS HOUSE, RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131549
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER GAS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: FORMER GAS HOUSE, RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131549
Date first listed:: 06-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER GAS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER GAS HOUSE, RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: FORMER GAS HOUSE, RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION CENTRE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: St. Martin's
National Grid Reference:: NZ 17786 00830

Details

ST MARTINS RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION NZ 10 SE CENTRE

4/117 Former Gas House

GV II

Former gas house. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Single storey, 3 bays. Quoins. 3 tall round-arched quoined openings with ashlar voussoirs giving impression of arcade. Central opening with board doors. Outer openings double-arched, with glazing in tympana above recessed rubble blocking. Hipped roof with raised louvred ventilator along apex. Interior: to left, 2 round-arched furnaces of burnt bricks. The gas house served the station complex only, being on the other side of the river from the town of Richmond's gasworks. The chimney has been demolished, and the building was derelict at the time of resurvey. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ1778600830

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Legacy System number:: 322183
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.