TOWN HALL AND POST OFFICE
POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174009
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- TOWN HALL AND POST OFFICE
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174009
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- TOWN HALL AND POST OFFICE
- Statutory Address 1:
- POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWN HALL, MAIN 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:
- POST OFFICE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN HALL, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2847860596
Details
SE 2860-2960
8/88
15.3.66
RIPLEY
MAIN STREET
(east side)
Town Hall and Post Office
(formerly listed separately as Hotel de Ville and Post Office)
GV
II
Town Hall and Post Office, 1854 for Louisa, the widow of Sir William
Amcotts Ingilby as the final building in the estate village. Coursed
squared gritstone and ashlar, grey slate roof. A tall single-storey hall 1
bay wide and 5 bays long with recessed flanking bays. In an ornate Gothic
style. Moulded plinth. The main entrance is on the north side: 5 steps up
to the central double-board doors in an elaborate battlemented porch with
angle buttresses, crocketted finials and squirrel and boar's head motifs-.
The flanking and first-floor windows are of 2 cusped lights under deep
square hoodmoulds,a narrow door into the hall-far right. Continuous first-
floor and eaves string course. Battlemented parapet, small chimney stack
far right. Rear: 5 steps up to a board door in a moulded Tudor arch; 3-
light window left; 3 windows, of 2, 1 and 2 lights above. Left return: the
stonework is rock-faced ashlar; a massive 5-light Perpendicular window is
flanked by corner turrets. Right return (to street): central gabled bay
with a 2-tier canted bay window, centre, which has cusped lights in 2 tiers
and an inscription below the crenellated parapet: 'HOTEL / DE VILLE / 1854'.
Flanking octagonal battlemented turrets and crow-stepped gable with chimney
at apex and inscription in moulded architrave with hoodmould, below an angel
holding a shield, which reads: 'THIS / TOWN HALL / was commenced by / Sir Wm
Amcotts Ingilby Bar / For the use and benefit / of the inhabitants. It was
/ completed by his widow / in Honour of his Memory'. The French name for
the town hall reflects Sir William's long association with and interest in
France and Switzerland. The building unites the architectural features of
the Castle and the Church, although the latter was not restored until 1862.
The crenellations and octagonal buttresses imitate the roofline of the
earliest parts of the Castle, while the decorated windows and the finials
are very similar to those in the church. The squirrel and boar's head above
the entrance are also on the parapet of the Orangery (qv). The interior not
inspected at resurvey.
Listing NGR: SE2847860596
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 331593
- 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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