R Yates and Sons

R YATES AND SONS, RAILWAY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201946
Date first listed:
05-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
R Yates and Sons
Statutory Address:
R YATES AND SONS, RAILWAY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201946
Date first listed:
05-Apr-1993
List Entry Name:
R Yates and Sons
Statutory Address 1:
R YATES AND SONS, RAILWAY 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
R YATES AND SONS, RAILWAY STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Malton
National Grid Reference:
SE 78725 71558

Details

MALTON

SE780715 RAILWAY STREET 801-1/8/122 (East side) R Yates & Sons

GV II

Iron foundry, now engineering works. Mid C19, with later alteration. For R Yates and Sons Ltd. Pink and cream mottled brick in stretcher bond, with orange-red brick quoins and sandstone dressings; slate roof with coped gables. L-shaped on plan. 2-storey 5-bay range, with 3-bay crosswing gable at right end, on double chamfered plinth. Bays divided by pilasters on double chamfered bases. Central glazed doors, now disused, in 5-bay range, beneath semicircular brick quoined arch on moulded stone imposts, and coved hood. Tympanum contains wooden panels, with painted inscriptions: "R YATES & SONS LTD Established.1845" and "Ransomes Patent, Ploughs and Irons, Kept in Stock." Above arch, 2 keyed oculi flank stepped brick keyblock. Ground floor windows on each side are segment-headed with chamfered stone sills; and on first floor windows have square-arched quoined surrounds, over stone sillband. Broad stepped brick eaves cornice. Crosswing gable has round-arched entrance of 2 orders, with glazed doors and fanlight, between tall round-headed windows. Above door is 4-light window with single-pane sashes, flanked by keyed oculi. Stepped brick gable eaves band encloses painted panel with RY cipher between the words "EST.1845". Right return: 2-storeys-and-basement; 12-bay front. Bays divided by pilasters on basement plinth, with plain imposts and roundels in frieze blocks. Tall segment-arched doorway with steel double doors and double-transomed overlight towards right end. Basement openings are segment-arched. Ground- and first-floor windows are tripartite, those on ground floor with transoms, beneath cambered arches; some altered.

Listing NGR: SE7872571558

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Legacy System number:
389504
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.

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