The Curtain
THE CURTAIN, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131943
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Curtain
- Statutory Address:
- THE CURTAIN, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131943
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Curtain
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CURTAIN, HIGH STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE CURTAIN, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gilling with Hartforth and Sedbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 18341 05168
Details
GILLING WITH HARTFORTH HIGH STREET NZ 1805-1905 AND SEDBURY (east side) Gilling West 14/95 The Curtain
GV II
3 cottages, now 2 houses. Probably C14, with many later alterations. Rubble sandstone, C20 pantile roof with stone slates at eaves. 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows to south. Quoins. Ground floor, from left: scar of blocked fire window; part of blocked round-arched doorway; C20 pent-roofed porch with casement window; three C20 casement windows. First floor: blocked chamfered fire window surround; five C20 casement windows. Coping to right. 2 brick ridge stacks. Rear: head of C13 type window, with 2 pointed arches, and traces of a similar window. Right return: 2 blocked pointed-arched windows; gable with reversed crowstepping. The name of the building is thought to derive from the Latin cortem, meaning a yard or enclosure, which gives the English legal term curtilage. The French word cortaine, from the same root, implies a monastic enclosure. It has been suggested that The Curtain, and the Angel Inn, to which it is attached, were once a small monastic house, as early architectural fragments have been noted when various alterations have been carried out in the past, and that The Curtain was the chapel, with a south door and east window. In the C18 and early C19, The Curtain was used as a mail house when the Angel was an important coaching inn and mailing station, and converted into 3 cottages after the mail had transferred to the railways. Laybourn K, Historical Notes on the Parish Church of Gilling West, North Yorkshire, (1979), pp 3-4.
Listing NGR: NZ1835205168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 323309
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Laybourn, K, Historical Notes on the Parish Church of Gilling West, (1979), 3-4
Legal
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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