NUMBER 13 AND TAIRA HOUSE
13, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167769
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBER 13 AND TAIRA HOUSE
- Statutory Address:
- 13, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167769
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBER 13 AND TAIRA HOUSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 13, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TAIRA HOUSE, CHURCH 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.
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:
- 13, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TAIRA HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gargrave
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9316353880
Details
SD 95 SW
5/63
GARGRAVE
CHURCH STREET
(east side)
No,13 and Taira House
(formerly listed as The Vicarage
II
House, now in two occupations, apparently of two C18 builds (No.13) and one of
the early C19 (Taira House). Plaster, rubble, and stone slate roofs. Two
storeys. From the south the left hand end is in rubble, with large modern
windows to the ground floor and two sashes with glazing bars above. Next is a
plastered stretch of five bays, sashed with glazing bars, those to the first
floor in plain stone surrounds with a bead on the arris. To right is a tall
addition of two bays, sashed with glazing bars. This has a doorcase with
consoles and cornice. The gable to the street has been built out a foot beyond
the quoins. The roof has stone gutter brackets to all sections. Windows at the
rear are all sashes with glazing bars, except for a C19 canted bay. Tall
round-headed stair window to the rear of Taira House. Rebuilding of No.13, The
Vicarage, is recorded in 1728 and 1743 (J M Dinsdale, History of the Church and
Parish of St Andrew, Gargrave 1966)
Listing NGR: SD9316353880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324939
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dinsdale, J N, History of the Church and Parish of St Andrew Cargrave, (1966)
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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