Captain Cooks House
CAPTAIN COOKS HOUSE, GRAPE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148246
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Captain Cooks House
- Statutory Address:
- CAPTAIN COOKS HOUSE, GRAPE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1148246
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Captain Cooks House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CAPTAIN COOKS HOUSE, GRAPE LANE
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:
- CAPTAIN COOKS HOUSE, GRAPE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 90030 11043
Details
1. 1811 GRAPE LANE (South Side) Captain Cook's House NZ 9011 2/135 23.2.54.
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2. 3 storeys in brick with maroon ochre. Heavy diagonal brick eaves cornice. 4 windows, one blocked, arranged in pairs, flush frames, double-hung sashes with glazing bars and small brick leaded oval windows to ends of elevation on 1st and 2nd floors. Late C18 or early C19 elephant backed fluted pedimented doorcase with blocked radiating fanlight and 6-fielded door with 2 glazed panels, on left. Interior with panelling. Attics unchanged where, from 1746, the future Captain Cook lived when apprenticed to Captain Walker. Inset foot scraper. May be of earlier origins, but bears plaque in front on centre over ground floor inscribed D (over) MS 1688 for Moses and Susannah Dring. NMR.
Captain Cook's House, the Clinic and Nos 19 to 28 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: NZ9003011043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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