The Almshouses
THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293993
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1293993
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ALMSHOUSES, MAIN 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 ALMSHOUSES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burneston
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 30801 84960
Details
BURNESTON MAIN STREET SE 38 SW (west side) 6/10 The Almshouses (formerly listed as Nos 1 22.8.66 and 2 Burneston Almshouses)
GV II
Almshouses, now 2 cottages and a schoolroom. Dated 1680. Coursed rubblestone, red brick with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 7 bays. Rubblestone plinth with chamfered ashlar coping up ground- floor window height, ashlar quoins. To bay 2 and bay 5 are board doors in quoined surrounds with four-centred arched lintels. Above each is an ashlar tablet in moulded surround, that to left bears Latin inscription and date 1680, that to right bears coat of arms. Above both is an elliptical window in square stone surround. Other bays have 2-light rendered brick mullion windows with a variety of casements. To ground floor, outer and central windows have moulded brick segmental pediments, the other windows have triangular brick pediments. To right of bay 7 a stone sundial with inscription underneath. Each return has an external gable stack flanked by four circular windows in square stone surrounds, 2 to each floor. Shaped kneelers, stone copings. One large brick ridge stack. History: established by Matthew Robinson, Vicar of Burneston and owner of Allerthorpe Hall. VCH Vol I pp 357-361.
Listing NGR: SE3079984960
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332641
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 357-361
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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