The Black Friar Cafe
THE BLACK FRIAR CAFE, 27, KIRKGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243260
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- List Entry Name:
- The Black Friar Cafe
- Statutory Address:
- THE BLACK FRIAR CAFE, 27, KIRKGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243260
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Black Friar Cafe
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BLACK FRIAR CAFE, 27, KIRKGATE
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 BLACK FRIAR CAFE, 27, KIRKGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripon
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31333 71151
Details
SE 3171 RIPON KIRKGATE 1/11 (north side) 27.5.49 No 27 GV (The Black Friar Cafe) (formerly listed as Black Friar Cafe)
II
Mid-C15. Timber-framed. Stucco. Two storeys. Formerly 2 houses, although probably nearly contemporary. West part has one bay: sliding sash with glazing bars on first floor and mid C19 shopfront with panelled pilasters, roundels and moulded cornice. East part has 2 bays, the eastern one with carriage entrance retaining the seating for the hinge pin of one of the gates still in position in south-west corner, and pegs from another seating in the south-east corner. Above the entrance 2 arch braces from the bressummer to the principal posts are exposed: one tiny window. The other bay has a sliding sash with glazing bars on first floor, and a sash on the ground tioor.
Two fine roof trusses (clearly numbered 2 and 3) still survive in the eastern part: cambered tie beams, crown posts and braces from the head of the crown post to the outer ends of the tie beam (rather similar to the exposed framing over the carriage entrance). The western part originally had a jettied first floor (bracket for the jetty surviving as it is cut in one with a surviving post); but the front was subsequently extended a few feet, evidently before 1797 when it was illustrated in J M W Turner's drawing of Kirkgate (British Museum), though without its present mid C19 detailing.
History. Built as a gatehouse, presumably to the palace of the Archbishops of York, which almost certainly occupied the area just to the north.
Listing NGR: SE3133371151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330104
- 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.
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