Castle Vaults
CASTLE VAULTS, 23, CASTLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149892
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Vaults
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE VAULTS, 23, CASTLEGATE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05799/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149892
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Vaults
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE VAULTS, 23, CASTLEGATE
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:
- CASTLE VAULTS, 23, CASTLEGATE
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:
- SE3497556993
Details
SE 3456
8/82
5.2.52
KNARESBOROUGH
CASTLEGATE
(south side)
No 23 (Castle Vaults)
(formerly listed as
Castle Hotel)
GV
II
Public House. Mid C18. Rendered, slate roof. 4 storeys, 1 bay wide facing
the Market Place (north), 2 bays deep to Castlegate. Massive quoins.
Facade to Market Place: ground floor: 3 stone Doric pilasters flank 2 sashes
with glazing bars. Triglyph frieze to lower edge of a canted bay
immediately above. Projecting on left is a sash with glazing bars in
single-storey curved bay which continues round corner. 1st floor: 20-pane
sash in canted bay, flanked by sashes with glazing bars; cornice. Canted
walling continues above to 2nd and 3rd (attic) storeys with similar windows.
Projecting 1st- and 2nd-floor sill bands. Dentilled eaves cornice. Hipped
roof, stack to right. Left return, right bay: quoins, those to left painted
on below first floor window lintel level. C20 door with sash with glazing
bars to right. 2 sashes with glazing bars to first and second floors.
Blind windows, to third floor. Bay to left: probably C19 extension with C20
alterations and additions.
Listing NGR: SE3497556993
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330745
- 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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