Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981

Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1239953
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981
Statutory Address:
Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981
Remains of Whitby & Pickering Railway weigh-house.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1239953
Date first listed:
08-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981
Statutory Address 1:
Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Whitby
National Grid Reference:
NZ8984809812

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 June 2026 to amend details in the description and to reformat text to current standards

NZ 8809-NZ 8909
10/601

WHITBY
LARPOOL
Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981

II

Weighing Machine House building C1835; built for the Whitby-Pickering Railway Co, engineer Robert Stephenson. Finely cut ashlar with ashlar dressings. Single storey. Semi-circular plan. North-west front has a large window opening with raised and curved ashlar surround, the wall is topped by a curved shallow ashlar cornice. Either side are set back doorways with curved ashlar surrounds and single further doorways also with curved surrounds set at right angles. The curved rear wall has two side windows and a central rear blocked window. This building is in a ruinous state, many of the stones lying loose around the site.

Listing NGR: NZ8984809812

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
438016
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.

Ordnance survey map of Weighing Machine House at NGR NZ 8985 0981

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