8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132152
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
- Statutory Address:
- 8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132152
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- 8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
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:
- 8 AND 10, TOWN HEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grassington
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 00171 64481
Details
GRASSINGTON TOWN HEAD SE 0064- 0164 (east side) 8/15 Nos. 8 and 10 (formerly listed as The Nook and 10.9.54 Inglenook) II House, now 2 houses. Mid C17 with late C18- early C19 alterations and division. Gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays, the centre bay projecting forward as a gabled wing. Quoins. Left bay: door left and casement window to right on each floor, all in plain surrounds. End stack to left. Central bay: recessed chamfered mullion windows of 1 light to ground floor and 3 lights (altered) to first floor left; inserted window first-floor right; bulbous kneelers, gable coping, large corniced ashlar stack to apex of gable. Left return has a chamfered quoined surround to doorway on left; C20 window in altered C17 opening to right and 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window to first floor, the mullion missing. Right bay: inserted doorway left, 3-light recessed chamfered mullion window right, drip mould over both; similar window to first floor; corniced stack left. The eaves of bay 1 have been raised. Rear: random fenestration; bays 2 and 3 have small Cl7 windows, bay 1 has larger C18 and C19 openings. Interior not inspected at resurvey; reported to contain an original fireplace and a 1625 datestone. I. Goldthorpe, One Hundred Things to see on a walk through Grassington, 1988, (booklet).
Listing NGR: SE0017164481
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324789
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Goldthorpe, I, One Hundred Things to See on a Walk Through Grassington, (1988)
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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