Newgate House and Gate Piers

NEWGATE HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, NEWGATE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161541
Date first listed:
03-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Newgate House and Gate Piers
Statutory Address:
NEWGATE HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, NEWGATE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161541
Date first listed:
03-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:
Newgate House and Gate Piers
Statutory Address 1:
NEWGATE HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, NEWGATE STREET

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NEWGATE HOUSE AND GATE PIERS, NEWGATE STREET

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

District:
East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cottingham
National Grid Reference:
TA 04855 32590

Details

COTTINGHAM NEWGATE STREET TA 03 SW (south side) 7/20 Newgate House and gate piers 3.12.51 - II

House and gatepiers. Late C18/early C19. White brick, stone dressings, slate roofs. Main range of 2 storeys, 5 bays, originally flanked by single-storey, single- bay wings to right and left: that on the right has been raised in C20. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels with fanlight with radial glazing in panelled soffit and reveals, behind half-round porch carried on columns with Tower of the Winds capitals. Sashes with glazing bars and sill band under cambered wedge lintels. First-floor band and sill band to 5 similar, smaller sashes. Mutule cornice to low, coped parapet. Coped gables, end stacks. Left wing has 2 round-headed sashes with glazing bars and fluted tympana. Right wing has single, similar window. Each has a sill band and corner pilaster topped by an urn. Low coped parapets. 2 pairs of rusticated gate piers to front wall: each with band, moulded cornice, and ball finial (one missing).

Listing NGR: TA0485532590

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
164661
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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