Audus charity

Audus charity, 125-139 and 143, Gowthorpe

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1132576
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:: Audus charity
Statutory Address:: Audus charity, 125-139 and 143, Gowthorpe

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1132576
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 23-Sep-1981
List Entry Name:: Audus charity
Statutory Address 1:: Audus charity, 125-139 and 143, Gowthorpe

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

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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:: Audus charity, 125-139 and 143, Gowthorpe

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Selby
National Grid Reference:: SE 60989 32170

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 7 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SE 6032 SE 3/25

GOWTHORPE (south side) Nos 125 to 139 (odd) and No 143 (Audus charity)

(Formerly listed as Nos 125 to 143 (odd) (Audus Charity))

GV II

Summer of 1833. Built to the design of, and at the expense of, the younger James Audus (1781-1867), the prominent local philanthropist and amateur architect. Brown brick. Hipped slate roof. Three sides of a square. Two storeys. Three bays on east side, four on the west, and four plus frontispiece on south: casements with glazing bars and channelled ashlar voussoirs. Frontis-piece is carried up into low tower with crenellated parapet and crocketed pinnacles at corners: two moulded string courses: two-centred arched passage entrance with crocketed ogee-headed moulding ending in elaborate finial above and masks as label stops below.

Sunk ashlar plaque on first floor, inscribed "THESE HOUSES ERECTED AT THE SOLE EXPENSE OF JAMES AUDUS ESQ WERE PRESENTED TO THE FEOFFEES AND THEIR SUCCESSORS AT SELBY IN TRUST FOR PIOUS USES. THAT THE SAID HOUSES BE OCCUPIED FROM TIME TO TIME BY AGED AND INFIRM PEOPLE WITHOUT FAMILIES BELONGING TO THE PARISH TO SELBY RENT FREE. NATALIS LOCI SUI AMORIS MONUMENTUM 1833".

Listing NGR: SE6098932170

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Legacy System number:: 325756
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.