Former Harrogate School of Art

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:
Belvedere House, Victoria Avenue, Harrogate, HG1 1EL
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Official list entry

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.

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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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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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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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