Whitegates
WHITEGATES, TOMMY BAXTER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173124
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Whitegates
- Statutory Address:
- WHITEGATES, TOMMY BAXTER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173124
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Whitegates
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITEGATES, TOMMY BAXTER 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:
- WHITEGATES, TOMMY BAXTER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fylingdales
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ9528604974
Details
FYLINGDALES TOMMY BAXTER STREET
NZ 9504
Robin Hood's Bay
13/224 (south end)
6.10.69 Whitegates
GV
II
House, C17 with alterations. Herringbone-tooled sandstone in large blocks; incised
rendered north (entrance) front. Tarred gable on seaward side. Pantiled roof with
stone copings and kneelers, brick stack. Entrance front 2 storeys, attic and tall
basement. Boarded basement door with 9-pane fixed light at right. Left weather-
boarded pent porch, rising almost to eaves, with Boarded door. A later C19 sash
on each floor at right and in a tall half dormer. Tall projecting wall at left is
remnant of other part of building, now fallen into sea. Right end curved coping and
kneeler, rebuilt chimney. West front has 9-pane sash on ground floor, C19 sash with
vertical bars on first floor and blank second floor. East (sea) front has 2 remain-
ing bays: paired 6-pane windows with bottom left opening section, 8-pane sash above
and small 6-pane sash to left. 8-pane sash in set-back gable end. Boarded door and
blocked window under old timber lintels at bottom right. This house was formerly
the residence of the celebrated marine painter, Dame Ethel Walker.
Listing NGR: NZ9528604974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327877
- 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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