Former Harrogate School of Art
Belvedere House, Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 1EL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149399
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Harrogate School of Art
- Statutory Address:
- Belvedere House, Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 1EL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149399
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Harrogate School of Art
- Statutory Address 1:
- Belvedere House, Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 1EL
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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:
- Belvedere House, Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 1EL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrogate
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30213 55005
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11 December 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
SE 3055 SW
14/184
SE 3054 NW
25/184
VICTORIA AVENUE (South Side)
Belvedere House
Former Harrogate School of Art
(Formerly listed as Harrogate School of Art, VICTORIA AVENUE)
II
Circa 1861 formerly 'the Belvidere' and later St Peter's School. Elizabethan style. Irregular four bay range with belvedere at east end and recessed Dutch gabled range with rear extensions; one bay return to West Park. Three storeys, attics and basement. Hipped slated roof, entrance bay with Dutch gable. Grit stone ashlar with cornice and pierced parapet. Floor strings. Battlemented tourelle on corner. Four storey belvedere with ogee roof and crested treatment to blocking course. Battlemented stacks. Mostly two-light windows; entrance bay with segmental bowed window rising through first and second floors and flanking first floor bays with splayed bay windows with quatrefoil pierced parapets and aprons. Gothic porte cochere with four centred arched openings and enriched spandrels.
Listing NGR: SE3021355005
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329975
- 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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