72,74,76,78, HIGH STREET
72,74,76,78, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293772
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1979
- List Entry Name:
- 72,74,76,78, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 72,74,76,78, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293772
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1979
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 72,74,76,78, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 72,74,76,78, 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:
- 72,74,76,78, HIGH STREET
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 34955 57144
Details
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH HIGH STREET
(north side) 6/138 Nos 72, 74, 76 and 78 12.10.79 (Nos 72 to 76 formerly listed)
GV II
Row of 4 houses, now shops. Early C17, refronted mid C18. Timber, limestone rubble, Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 first-floor windows. No 72: half-glazed panelled door to left, 6-pane bow window to right, 4-pane sash with stone lintel above. No 74: half-glazed door to right, 6-pane bow window to left, 4-pane sash with stone lintel above. No 76: glazed door to right, slightly bowed 6-pane window to left, canted bay window with 4-pane sash above. No 78: C20 shop front of central door flanked by plate-glass windows. 2 small sashes above. Continuous sill band to first-floor windows, broken by bay window of no 76. Eaves of nos 72, 74 and 76 raised. Roof hipped on right, brick end stack to right and ridge stack above entrance to no 76. Interior: timber framing of the front and rear walls survives, with alterations to openings. Principal posts with straight braces support roof trusses with curved struts and side-purlins. The roof is composed of common rafters. Nos 72 - 76 were examined by the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group. No 78 was examined at resurvey, when timbering was found on the first floor. A survey made in 1611 refers to 4 burgages on this site, 2½ built and l½ unbuilt. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group. Report No 251 (1977).
Listing NGR: SE3495557144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 251, (1977)
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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