Nos 1, 3 and 5, With No 25 Castlegate

NOS 1, 3 AND 5, WITH NO 25 CASTLEGATE, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149883
Date first listed:
15-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Nos 1, 3 and 5, With No 25 Castlegate
Statutory Address:
NOS 1, 3 AND 5, WITH NO 25 CASTLEGATE, KIRKGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149883
Date first listed:
15-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Nos 1, 3 and 5, With No 25 Castlegate
Statutory Address 1:
NOS 1, 3 AND 5, WITH NO 25 CASTLEGATE, KIRKGATE

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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.

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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:
NOS 1, 3 AND 5, WITH NO 25 CASTLEGATE, KIRKGATE

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Knaresborough
National Grid Reference:
SE 34975 57005

Details

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH KIRKGATE (south side)

6/152 and 8/152 Nos 1, 3 and 5, with no 25 Castlegate. (Nos 1,3 and 15.5.68 5 Kirkgate formerly listed)

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Row of 3 cottages, now 3 shops and cafeteria. Early C17 with alterations in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, rendered, graduated stone slate roof left, (no 1) pantile roof to right (nos 3 and 5). 2 storeys with attics, 3 bays, no 25 Castlegate in rear of no 1. No 1 (left) - half-glazed 4-panel door to right of 6-pane shop window with C20 fascia board over all. First floor: large C19 shop-window above with cambered arch and wooden architrave. End stack left. Left return: plain door (no 25 Castlegate) with dentilled cornice, on left, into rear outshut of no 1. Bow window of 28 panes to right of door, bowed walling below; 16-pane sash above, 4-pane side-sliding sash in gable. Central external stack. Sash in blocked doorway with wooden architrave and cornice, to right of stack. Nos 3 and 5 Kirkgate: ground- floor openings, left to right: 6-pane shop window, half-glazed door in plain frame; 2-pane shop window and half-glazed door in C19 casing; C20 plate- glass shop window. Roofed passage to rear of property, far right. First floor: left: 4-pane sash; centre: side-sliding sash with glazing bars; right: blocked board door with glazed centre panel. Ridge stack centre. A plaque on the wall states that the building was recorded in a 1611 survey of the town as a "hospital for 6 poor folk", and that it retains the original wooden framework. Parallel range attached to rear - not of special interest. Interior: ceiling beams and joists visible. Roof not inspected at resurvey.

Listing NGR: SE3497557005

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Legacy System number:
330822
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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