The Close
THE CLOSE, NORTHALLERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190520
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Close
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLOSE, NORTHALLERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190520
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CLOSE, NORTHALLERTON ROAD
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 CLOSE, NORTHALLERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brompton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 37215 96021
Details
SE 3696-3796 BROMPTON NORTHALLERTON ROAD (west side)
12/21 The Close
GV II
House, now a children's home. 1895. By Walter H Brierley. Jacobean in style. Red brick, ashlar dressings, plain tile roof. L-shaped in plan, main front with service wing at right angle to rear left. Main front: 2 storeys with attics, 4 bays. Plinth to sill level with brick coping. central board and stud door in quoined chamfered 4-centred arched surround. Outer bays have full-height canted bay windows with parapets, 5-light . double-chamfered mullion-and-transom windows with single side lights to ground floor, above 5-light mullioned windows. To left of door a 5-light double-chamfered mullion-and-transom window, to right of door a 7-light mullioned window with 2 major mullions. On first floor the 2 central bays have 6-light double-chamfered mullioned windows. Above canted bays, 2-light flat-headed dormers. To central 2 bays near the ridge are 2 smaller 2-light dormers. Stone coping with parapet stretching round to bay windows. External gable stacks and large stack to central ridge. Service wing to right-hand side: main entrance porch with embattled parapet to left, chamfered round-arched doorway with 2 stone crests above and cornice, to its right a 3-light chamfered mullioned window. Similar 2-light window to far left beyond tapering stack. To right, 6 bays with various casement windows. Interior: large inglenook fireplace in panelled dining-room. 2 other original fireplaces downstairs.
Listing NGR: SE3744896310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332384
- 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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