The Gables

THE GABLES, KIRBY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1295518
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
The Gables
Statutory Address:
THE GABLES, KIRBY LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1295518
Date first listed:
14-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:
The Gables
Statutory Address 1:
THE GABLES, KIRBY LANE

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE GABLES, KIRBY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kirby Grindalythe
National Grid Reference:
SE 90549 67542

Details

KIRBY GRINDALYTHE KIRBY LANE SE 96 NW (east side) 13/22 The Gables - II House. c1880. By John Birch, for the Sledmere Estate. Pink-orange brick in Flemish bond, on moulded brick plinth; orange gauged-brick quoins and dressings; tile roof. Corner site. 2-storey, 5-bay front; left end, centre and right-of-centre bays project, and left end bay canted on street corner. Ground floor of right-of-centre bay forms porch with shallow Tudor-arched opening and recessed half-glazed front door. Bay to right has 4-light casement window with square leaded glazing beneath cambered gauged brick arch. Centre bay has 5-light canted bay window with square leaded glazing and half-hexagonal pent roof. Next left bay has 2-light window beneath segmental arch with corniced keystone: uncarved terracotta panel sunk in moulded surround above. Cross window beneath shallow Tudor arch in corner bay. First floors of corner and right-of-centre bays are jettied and contain 2-light casements with square leaded glazing beneath cambered gauged brick arches. Right end and centre bay have similar 2- and 3-light windows respectively. Windows are all recessed in moulded brick surrounds with moulded terracotta sills. All bays except the centre left one are gabled with barge boards and terracotta finials. Low stack at right end and panelled ridge stack towards left end, both corniced. Roof hipped at left end. Left return: 2-storey, 1-window gabled bay with 1-storey, 4-window service wing at left. 3-light ground-floor window beneath segmental arch with corniced keystone in 2-storey bay, with 2-light first-floor window. Service wing has 3 similar windows and one C20 top-opening light in altered opening. Central ridge stack, panelled and corniced. Finial at left end. Right return: external stack with tumbled brick offsets. House built originally as Estate Office and Manager's House.

Listing NGR: SE9054967542

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Legacy System number:
329361
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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