The Abbey
THE ABBEY, ABBEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243591
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Abbey
- Statutory Address:
- THE ABBEY, ABBEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243591
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Abbey
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ABBEY, ABBEY ROAD
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 ABBEY, ABBEY ROAD
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 35584 55743
Details
SE 35 NE KNARESBOROUGH ABBEY ROAD (south side) The Abbey
1086-/3/10000
II
House. Early C18 with late C18 and C19 additions and C20 alterations. Coursed rubble and brick with ashlar dressings. Pantile roof with raised and coped gables with kneelers, plus 2 gable and 3 ridge brick stacks. 2 storey plus attics. Quoins. Glazing bar sashes throughout. North west front. 5 windows wide. Off centre doorway within a 2 storey canted bay, with part glazed door and overlight, and above a triple sash. To the right a tripartite sash with a single sash above, and to the left a single sash to each floor, beyond to left a set back section with a single sash to each floor and beyond a further 2 storey canted bay window with a triple sash to each floor. Above 2, 3-light raking dormer windows. South west front, has a 2 storey canted brick bay window with a triple sash to each floor, and a narrow sash to the left, above 2 smaller windows in the gable. South east front, has two 2 storey canted bay windows, that to the left with a pair of part glazed doors, beyond to right a narrow sash. Above a 3 light raking dormer and a 2 light hipped dormer. To the right a projecting double gable wing with an off centre pointed arched doorway with C20 door and fanlight, to the right a sash and to the left a large segment headed window, with 3 casements. Above a tripartite sash to the left, and 2 sashes to the right.
Listing NGR: SE3558455743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 447607
- 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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