Estate Office and Clerk's House

ESTATE OFFICE AND CLERK'S HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1083767
Date first listed:
07-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Estate Office and Clerk's House
Statutory Address:
ESTATE OFFICE AND CLERK'S HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1083767
Date first listed:
07-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Estate Office and Clerk's House
Statutory Address 1:
ESTATE OFFICE AND CLERK'S HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
ESTATE OFFICE AND CLERK'S HOUSE, MAIN STREET

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

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Sledmere
National Grid Reference:
SE 93289 64889

Details

SLEDMERE MAIN hSTREET SE 9264-9364 (north side)

17/59 Estate Office and Clerk's House

GV II

Estate office and clerk's house. c1890. By John Birch for Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet. Reddish-orange brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Built as 2 offset blocks. Estate office: single storey, 2 bays, the left of which breaks forward and is gabled; set back to left is 2-storey, 2-bay left return of clerk's house; clerk's house, main facade: 2 storeys, 3 bays of which left bay breaks forward and is gabled,with ranges to left. Estate office: plinth with chamfered ashlar copings. Entrance set back to right side a board door in 4-centred, moulded ashlar surround under wooden gabled porch. At left side a canted bay window, the centre of 3 lights,the side of single lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in double-chamfered ashlar surround. Above, an ashlar plaque depicting triton. To second bay a 3-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms in double-chamfered surround and with ashlar quoins. Small gable above. Wooden modillion eaves. Ridge stack. Set back to left is left return of clerk's house: left bay breaks forward and is gabled. Plinth. To left a canted bay window, the centre of 2 lights, the sides are single lights with ovolo-moulded mullions and in double-chamfered surround with quoined jambs. Then a 3-light ovolo-moulded window in double-chamfered surrounds with quoined jambs. To first floor are two 2-light windows with similar mouldings and surrounds. To gable an ornamental slit in quoined ashlar surround. Small gable above second bay. Wooden modillion eaves. Clerk's house, main facade: plinth with chamfered ashlar copings. Central entrance a board door within 4-centred moulded ashlar surround with quoined jambs, under half-brick, half-timber gabled porch. To left a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom window within double-chamfered ashlar surround and with quoined jambs. To right a similar 2-light window. To first floor a 3- and a 2-light window with similar mouldings and surrounds. To gable an ornamental slit in quoined ashlar surround. Small gable above right bay. Wooden modillion eaves and rear stacks. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 346.

Listing NGR: SE9328964889

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Legacy System number:
167869
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 346

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 22 Humberside,

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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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