CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23

CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190703
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23
Statutory Address:: CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23, KIRKGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190703
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23, KIRKGATE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CASTLE CLOSE, TO REAR OF NOS 19-23, KIRKGATE

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 34896 57012

Details

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH KIRKGATE (south side, off)

6/155 Castle Close, to rear of nos 19-23 5.2.52 GV II

House or folly. Mid C18 with additions and restoration c1920. Stone slate roof. 2 storeys, square plan with 2-storey, 2-bay addition to front (east side). C20 door and windows in this addition, which has a gabled roof with gable coping and ball finial. Main block has moulded and dentilled eaves cornice, pyramidal roof with ball finial and rear corner stacks. Right return: the corner of a banded and corniced facade is just visible between the C20 addition and Castle Cliffe (q.v.). Rear: C20 addition with lean-to roof on ground floor, sash with plain lintel to first floor. The 2-storey range attached to south-east side was possibly a factory or warehouse and is not of special interest. This tower was probably built as part of Castle Cliffe (q.v.). The range, together with the factory or warehouse, was part of Dr Steads Yard in the mid C19. The whole group was restored in 1927 by a local builder. Kellys Directory of Yorkshire 1851 and 1871.

Listing NGR: SE3490957042

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Legacy System number:: 330825
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Kellys Directory' in Yorkshire, (1871)
'Kellys Directory' in Yorkshire, (1851)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.