NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS

NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53,55, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190763
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53,55, KIRKGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190763
Date first listed:: 12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:: NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53,55, 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:: NOS 53 AND 55 WITH FORECOURT RAILINGS, 53,55, 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 34767 57104

Details

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH KIRKGATE (south side)

6/163 Nos 53 and 55 with forecourt railings

GV II

Pair of houses with forecourt railings. Late C18. Houses:ashlar, stone slate roof. 3 storeys; 4 first-floor windows, 2 blind. Short flight of stone steps down to central pair of doors: 6-panel, part-glazed door left (no 53) and C20 half-glazed door right (no 55). Flanking 20-pane bow windows with shutters. C20 sash windows with glazing bars to upper floors. Pair of blind windows to first and second floors, centre. Incised lintels and projecting sills throughout. End stacks. Railings: approximately 80 centimetres high, fastened into gritstone curb. Closely-spaced rails with bulbous finials and top rail. The houses are built on steeply-sloping ground at the top of Water Bag Bank.

Listing NGR: SE3476757102

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Legacy System number:: 330834
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.