Old Theatre
OLD THEATRE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293762
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- OLD THEATRE, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293762
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD THEATRE, HIGH 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.
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:
- OLD THEATRE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Northallerton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36812 93830
Details
NORTHALLERTON HIGH STREET SE 3693-3793 (west side, off) 7/40 Old Theatre GV II Theatre, now health spa. c1800 with later alterations. For Butler, Jefferson and Co. Orange-red-brown brick in English garden wall bond, pantile roof. 2 storeys, formerly with a cellar; 4 internal bays. West side: two first-floor 24-pane fixed- light windows with inserted doorway on right and 2 inserted C20 windows on each floor to left. Dentil eaves. Shaped kneelers, ashlar coping. Later additions mask much of the east side, which was probably the front, with access from the High Street. Northallerton was on the same provincial theatre circuit as Richmond, where the theatre Royal, built by Samuel Butler in 1788, has almost identical dimensions. The Northallerton theatre almost certainly had the same internal arrangements, of the stage occupying almost half the volume, and the auditorium having pit, boxes and gallery, all served by a single entrance with pay-box. The theatre was discontinued in 1832, and was re-opened as a Primitive Methodist Chapel in 1834. This continued until a new chapel, off the east side of the High Street, opened in 1889. Rev J L Saywell, The History and Annals of Northallerton (1885), pp 143, XV; VCH i, p 420.
Listing NGR: SE3681293830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332834
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 420
Saywell, Reverend J L, The History and Annals of Northallerton, (1885), 143
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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