Captain Cook Public House

CAPTAIN COOK PUBLIC HOUSE, DURHAM STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136730
Date first listed:
28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Captain Cook Public House
Statutory Address:
CAPTAIN COOK PUBLIC HOUSE, DURHAM STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1136730
Date first listed:
28-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:
Captain Cook Public House
Statutory Address 1:
CAPTAIN COOK PUBLIC HOUSE, DURHAM 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CAPTAIN COOK PUBLIC HOUSE, DURHAM STREET

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

District:
Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 49725 21080

Details

MIDDLESBROUGH DURHAM STREET, NZ 42 SE (4921) west side. 1/26 Captain Cook public house. - II. Public house, dated 1893 in left gable, by Robert Moore (Middlesbrough) Smooth red brick, rendered returns and stucco dressings. Painted stone public house frontage. Slate roof. Jacobethan style with classical features. 2 storeys, 6 bays. Ground-floor bays defined by pilasters under fluted consoles. In 3rd bay, panelled double doors and overlight under 2 painted square panels, in panelled Ionic doorcase with enriched capitals and segmental shell hood on enriched scrolled brackets with grotesque masks. Renewed boarded double doors and overlight in vehicle entrance at right end. Windows with moulded mullions and transoms and renewed glazing. Blind light in each bay carries advertisement. Painted brick plinth. Frieze and dentil cornice and late C20 lamp brackets between floors. Asymmetrical first floor has 5 slightly-projecting mullioned-and-transomed windows, with sashes and glazing bars, including oriel with quadrant angles and ogee oversailing, flanked by engaged quasi-Ionic columns, at left end. Off-centre keyed oculus. Central late C20 brewery sign. Continous cornice. Pilaster strips flank 2 right end bays. Shaped gables, at ends, have pargeting with foliage-enriched strapwork, blocked windows and ball finials on stems. Low parapet, with corniced ramps at ends, runs between gables. Rendered end stacks.

Listing NGR: NZ4972521080

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
59714
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.

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