The Dower House
THE DOWER HOUSE, 48, BOND END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188680
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, 48, BOND END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1188680
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, 48, BOND END
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:
- THE DOWER HOUSE, 48, BOND END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Knaresborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 34658 57374
Details
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH BOND END (west side)
6/60 No 48 (The Dower House) 5.2.52 GV II
Dower House, now hotel. Mid C18 with C20 additions. Red brick, Flemish bond, C20 pantile roof, with 2 eaves courses of stone. 3 storeys, the top storey false, 7 first-floor windows. Rusticated quoins, limestone plinth. Central 6-panel door with fanlight; rubbed-brick round arch with keystone. Flanking and first-floor windows: sashes with glazing bars in flush wood architraves. Projecting sills, rubbed brick flat arches with keystones. Second floor: 5 blind windows in tall parapet wall which disguises 3 roof gables. Top 5 courses of parapet (above blind windows) rebuilt mid C20, moulded limestone coping. Brick stacks to rear, left and right. Rear: original rear wall obscured by additional wing for hotel accommodation. Left return: one inserted sash window with glazing bars, ground floor right. Right return: random fenestration, C20 frames. Interior: fine C18 staircase opposite entrance. Turned balusters and newels, ramped handrail. The building was the Dower house of the Slingsby family of Knaresborough and Scriven. It was greatly extended in 1970-80, when the stable block was also converted to hotel use.
Listing NGR: SE3465857374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330723
- 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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