Prison Attached to North End of Court House
PRISON ATTACHED TO NORTH END OF COURT HOUSE, CASTLE YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190107
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Prison Attached to North End of Court House
- Statutory Address:
- PRISON ATTACHED TO NORTH END OF COURT HOUSE, CASTLE YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190107
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Prison Attached to North End of Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRISON ATTACHED TO NORTH END OF COURT HOUSE, CASTLE YARD
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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:
- PRISON ATTACHED TO NORTH END OF COURT HOUSE, CASTLE YARD
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 34903 56880
Details
SE 3456 KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE YARD (south side) 8/93 Prison attached to north end of Court House (q.v.)
GV II
Prison, now veterans club with covered platform. 1786 with medieval foundations, restored C20. Coursed squared gritstone, stone slate roof. Single storey, with cells below; 1 bay with glazed platform to right. Platform on right has 6 steps up to opening in low wall. Main block has 3- light C18 window with transom and segmental arch under hoodmould. Stone corbels support guttering. Hipped roof, small flue pipe to rear stack. Rear: wall of glazed platform on left has blocked flat-arched doorway partly below ground level. The wall has been raised above lintel height; flat coping. Right return: entrance to main block is under glazed shelter, through probably C20 doorway on right. Left return: 2 large round-arched windows with C20 3-light casements with transom. Interior not inspected. The building probably contained 2 cells in the mid C19 and was the Castle Prison for the Forest and Forest Liberty of Knaresborough. Ordnance Survey, Map of Knaresborough, 5 feet to 1 mile, 1851.
Listing NGR: SE3490356880
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330756
- 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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