Palace House

Palace House, 11, St Cuthberts Square, Holy Island, TD15 2SW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042314
Date first listed:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Palace House
Statutory Address:
Palace House, 11, St Cuthberts Square, Holy Island, TD15 2SW
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1042314
Date first listed:
15-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Palace House
Statutory Address 1:
Palace House, 11, St Cuthberts Square, Holy Island, TD15 2SW

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Palace House, 11, St Cuthberts Square, Holy Island, TD15 2SW

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Holy Island
National Grid Reference:
NU 12696 41913

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/01/2020

NU 1241
12/38

HOLY ISLAND
ST.CUTHBERT'S SQUARE (south side)
No 11, Palace House

(Formerly listed as House occupied by Miss Selby Sinton)

GV
II
House. C16 with C19 wing to rear and C20 alterations. Random rubble incorporating many large boulders and quoins. Thick walls. Welsh slate roof and rebuilt brick chimneys. L-shaped. Two storeys with attics. Irregular openings. C20 door with flanking four-pane sashes in raised concrete surrounds. Two four-pane sashes on first floor. Blocked C16 doorway to left with Tudor-arched head in chamfered surround; relieving arch over. Jambs of blocked original openings on first floor. Gabled roof with flat coping, end stacks and two gabled dormers.

Listing NGR: NU1269641913

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
237747
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.

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