Fort Montague With Attached Wall to West
FORT MONTAGUE WITH ATTACHED WALL TO WEST, CRAG LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293901
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Fort Montague With Attached Wall to West
- Statutory Address:
- FORT MONTAGUE WITH ATTACHED WALL TO WEST, CRAG LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293901
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Fort Montague With Attached Wall to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORT MONTAGUE WITH ATTACHED WALL TO WEST, CRAG LANE
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:
- FORT MONTAGUE WITH ATTACHED WALL TO WEST, CRAG LANE
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 35121 56482
Details
SE 3556 KNARESBOROUGH CRAG LANE (south end, off)
9/103 Fort Montague, with attached wall to west 5.2.52 - II
House and attached wall. 1770-86. By and for Thomas Hill and his son. Rock cut with rubble stone, part rendered, and Westmorland slate roof. 4 storeys, 1 room in plan, cut into the face of the cliff. East side: segmental arched entrance to top storey, on right, has 6-panel door in plain frame. No other openings. All windows are on the south face, one window to each floor, and are side-sliding sashes with glazing bars to lower 3 floors and a 4-pane sash to the top floor. Embattled parapet. Wall to left also embattled. Thomas Hill was a weaver who established a tenement on the cliff face, land owned by Thomas Slingsby. Over 16 years he terraced the cliff face and built the house, the work being completed by his son. The building was one of many rock-cut dwellings in the town in the C18 and C19. It is also known as The House in the Rock. E Hargrove, History of the Castle, Town and Forest of Knaresborough, 1809, p 92. Governor Hill, An account of Fort Montague at Knaresboro' in a letter from a Gentleman at Harrogate to his Friend in London, 1792.
Listing NGR: SE3511056492
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 330771
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hargrove, E, History of the Castle Town and Forest of Knaresborough, (1809), 92
Governor, H, An Account of Fort Montague at Knaresboro in a Letter from a Gentleman at Harrogate to his Friend in London, (1792)
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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