The Almhouses
THE ALMHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190826
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Almhouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-09-03
- Reference:
- IOE01/08467/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190826
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Almhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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 ALMHOUSES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cowesby
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46613 89843
Details
COWESBY MAIN STREET SE 4689 (EAST SIDE, OFF) 9/17 THE ALMSHOUSES 1.5.52 GV II Row of 4 almshouses, now one dwelling. Late C17 for Nathaniel, Lord Crewe, Bishop of Durham; coverted c1980. Tooled coursed squared stone, pantile roof. Single-storey with attic, 4 cells. Plinth. Two sets of paired chamfered quoined doorways with triangular soffits to lintels flanked by 2-tight recessed chamfered mullion windows. Ashlar coping on shaped kneelers with ball finials. Rebuilt end and central ridge stacks. Rear: a single-tight recessed chamfered window to each cell, the 2nd from right enlarged to a 2-light window; inserted central door and skylights. Each return has two recessed chamfered tights to gables. Interior: chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams. End fireplaces with adjacent stone spiral staircases survive, that at right end plastered over, that at left end with chamfered surround and massive 2-piece lintel. Attic: large-scantling purlins. The attics of the central almshouses were formerly lit by dormers and the stacks were corniced (pre-conversion photo held by owner). The roof originally had coupled common rafters with occasional collars (WYCVBSG Report). The building has been dated dendrochronologically to 1680+ 9 years (ibid). - W. Grainge, The Vale of Mowbray: a historical and topographical account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood (1859). North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group, Report No. 685.
Listing NGR: SE4661389843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332544
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Grainge, W, The Vale of Mowbray: A Historical and Topographical Account of Thirsk and its Neighbourhood, (1859)
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report, Vol. 685, ()
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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