Register House
REGISTER HOUSE, ZETLAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150719
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Register House
- Statutory Address:
- REGISTER HOUSE, ZETLAND STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1150719
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Register House
- Statutory Address 1:
- REGISTER HOUSE, ZETLAND STREET
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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:
- REGISTER HOUSE, ZETLAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northallerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36970 93859
Details
NORTHALLERTON ZETLAND STREET SE 3693-3793 (north side) 7/64 Register House 9.12.69 GV II Registry and court house, now offices. 1736, with later alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond, stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 3 x 3 bays with contemporary rear service wing. Original front, facing west towards the High Street: on ground floor, central doorway, now partly blocked to form a sash window with glazing bars, has painted ashlar surround with large raised quoins and large tripartite keystone. Brickwork offset above ground floor. first floor: sash windows with glazing bars with projecting ashlar sills and flat arches with keystones. Second floor: half-size 6-pane sash windows matching those on first floor. Dentilled cornice. Hipped roof. Left return: round-arched staircase sash window with glazing bars, radial at top. Right return: as west front and with C19 flat-roofed ashlar porch added when Zetland Street opened in mid C19; 2 ridge stacks. Single- storey rear service range (later raised to 2 storeys) has ashlar quoined door surround with keystone. This was one of only 4 deeds registries set up nationally under an Act of Parliament in 1735. In 1785 the Registry moved to a new Court House designed by John Carr, and since demolished. This building originally had its access through an elegant gateway, now demolished, on the High Street. C J Davison Ingledew, History and Antiquities of Northallerton (1858), pp 302-307; Rev J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 119, 137, viii-ix.
Listing NGR: SE3697093859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332858
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saywell, Reverend J L, The History and Annals of Northallerton, (1885), 119, 137
Davison Ingledew, C J, The History and Annals of Northallerton, (1885), 302-307
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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