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THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT

THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149280
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address:: THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1149280
Date first listed:: 04-Jan-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, MARKET PLACE

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:: THE BLACK SWAN AND RAILINGS TO FRONT, MARKET PLACE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Helmsley
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: SE 61246 83859

Details

SE 6183 HELMSLEY MARKET PLACE (north side) 10/84 The Black Swan and railings to front 4.1.55 (Formerly listed as The Vicarage and Black GV II Swan Hotel)

3 houses, now hotel. Late C16, early C18, and early C19 with C20 addition to rear. C16 section: timber frame underbuilt with sandstone rubble, fish-scale tile roof, stone and brick stacks. C18 section: hammered coursed sandstone, Welsh slate roof, C20 stone stack. C19 section: rusticated sandstone ashlar, Welsh slate roof, C20 stone stacks. C16 section to left, C19 section central, C18 section to right. C16 range: L-shaped hearth-passage hall plan. 2 storeys, 2½ bays of frame with cross wing of 3½ bays. C20 door to passage at right end, 2 casement windows to left. Herringbone bracing to first floor. 3 casement windows. Gable of cross wing has curved braces forming concave-sided lozenges. Steeply pitched roof with ridge stacks to cross wing and right end of hall. C19 section: 2 storeys, 3 bays. No doorway in front facade. Sashes with glazing bars throughout. Gable coping and end stacks. C18 section: 3 storeys, second floor being an addition. 4 bays. Entrance has 6-fielded-panel door under blocked fanlight flanked by engaged Tuscan columns carrying an open pediment. 1 C20 canted bay window to left, 2 to right. C20 3-light casements to first and second floors. Stone sills and wedge lintels to first floor, oblong lintels to second floor. To first/second floor: painted wooden model of black swan on decorated wrought-iron bracket. Stepped eaves. Hipped roof with ridge stack to right. Interior: C16 hall contains massive chamfered bressumer with shaped end supported on 2 chamfered posts with shaped brackets. Plain wrought-iron railings to front of whole property. C16 range also known as 'The Old Rectory'. C20 cross wing to rear not of special interest. Mc Donnell (ed), History of Helmsley, Rievaulx and District, 1963; Pevsner, Yorkshire: the North Riding, 1966.

Listing NGR: SE6124683859

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

Legacy System number:: 328310
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
McDonnell, J, A History of Helmsley Rievaulx and District, (1963)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966)

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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.