Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent

Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent, Selby, YO8 4PU

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1132593
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:: Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent
Statutory Address:: Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent, Selby, YO8 4PU

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1132593
Date first listed:: 14-Nov-1980
List Entry Name:: Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent
Statutory Address 1:: Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent, Selby, YO8 4PU

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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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:: Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to 6, The Crescent, Selby, YO8 4PU

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 61611 32329

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 16 June 2022 to amend the description and to reformat the text to current standards.

SE 6132 SE 5/48

THE CRESCENT (south-east side) Garden wall, piers, gate and railings to No 6

GV II Presumably shortly after 1793. Brown brick. Ashlar coping. Five ashlar piers, panelled, with moulded cornices and shallow conical caps. A few cast iron railings with spear finials. One cast iron gate with spear finials.

The Crescent was laid out during the last decade of the C18 and early C19 opposite Selby Abbey, as a high-status development along the lines of Lansdowne Crescent, Bath. It lined the connecting road from the town centre to New Street and on to Selby Toll Bridge, which was completed in 1792. Park House, later to become No.6 The Crescent and its associated garden wall were built shortly after 1793, by James Audus the elder (1752-1809) a prominent ship-owner.

Listing NGR: SE6161132329

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Legacy System number:: 325723
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.