The Borough Bailiff
THE BOROUGH BAILIFF, 70, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293787
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Borough Bailiff
- Statutory Address:
- THE BOROUGH BAILIFF, 70, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293787
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Borough Bailiff
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BOROUGH BAILIFF, 70, 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:
- THE BOROUGH BAILIFF, 70, 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 34965 57143
Details
SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH HIGH STREET (north side)
6/137 No 70 (The Borough Bailiff) (formerly listed 5.2.52 as No 70 (Commercial Hotel)
GV II
Public house. C16 with mid C18 refronting and C20 restoration. Limestone, rendered; Westmorland slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Panelled door in bay 2, left has fanlight with glazing bars, flanking fluted pilasters with paterae and open triangular pediment. Random fenestration; bow windows with sashes and glazing bars to bays 1, 3 and 4; paired sashes and single sash, all with glazing bars, to right of entrance. First floor, left to right: 9- pane unequally-hung sash, 3-light sash with large panes and balcony, 9-pane sash, 3-light sash. Most of the window frames were renewed c1976. Fine wrought-iron balcony with patterns of half circles, crosses and scrolls probably part of C18 refronting. Hipped roof, 4 stacks spaced along ridge. Interior: extensive remains of timber-framed building. A fine late-C17 staircase at rear of bay 2, with turned balusters and moulded handrail. The building was thoroughly examined during alterations in the 1930's and c1976. Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (32), 1935 p2. North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report No 180, February 1976.
Listing NGR: SE3496557143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330803
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. 32, (1935), 2
North Yorkshire and Cleveland Vernacular Buildings Study Group Report in Report Number 180, (1976)
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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