Villa Esplanade

Villa Esplanade, Esplanade , Scarborough , YO11 2AQ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1258436
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
Villa Esplanade
Statutory Address:
Villa Esplanade, Esplanade , Scarborough , YO11 2AQ
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1258436
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1973
List Entry Name:
Villa Esplanade
Statutory Address 1:
Villa Esplanade, Esplanade , Scarborough , YO11 2AQ

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

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:
Villa Esplanade, Esplanade , Scarborough , YO11 2AQ

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Scarborough
National Grid Reference:
TA 04320 87845

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 June 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TA 0487
6/236

THE ESPLANADE
Villa Esplanade

(Formerly listed as The Villa Esplanade Hotel)

GV
II

Circa 1840-50 gothicised stucco villa. Asymmetrical two storeys and attics. Gables with bargeboards and finials. Canted and rectangular two storey bay windows with mullioned lights, panelled parapets. Gabled dormers. On the south front a square five storey tower with pyramid slate roof and circular stair turret on second floor to corner, its two light narrow round headed windows divided by colonettes. Some of other windows have dripmoulds. Some later additions. Canted bay on south front has iron first floor balcony. Picturesque.

Nos 1 to 19 (consec), the Villa Esplanade Hotel, Nos 20 to 29 (consec) with the Esplanade Hotel, Belmont Road, and the Prince of Wales Hotel, Prince of Wales Terrace, all form a group.

Listing NGR: TA0432087845

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
444974
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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