Guides Cottage the Retreat
GUIDES COTTAGE, TYSON'S ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296369
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Guides Cottage the Retreat
- Statutory Address:
- GUIDES COTTAGE, TYSON'S ROW
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296369
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Guides Cottage the Retreat
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUIDES COTTAGE, TYSON'S ROW
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE RETREAT, TYSON'S ROW
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:
- GUIDES COTTAGE, TYSON'S ROW
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT, TYSON'S ROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fylingdales
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ9527004869
Details
FYLINGDALES TYSON'S ROW
NZ 9504
Robin Hood's Bay
19/226
Guides Cottage and
6.10.69 The Retreat
GV II
Two houses, one build. Early C18. Coursed herringbone-tooled sandstone with raised
quoins. Pantiled roof with stone copings and kneelers; brick stacks, one rendered.
2 storeys and attic on a full-height basement, revealed by removal of buildings
in front. Small window inserted in The Retreat. 3 bays in all. Entrance to rear.
Ground floor 3-light 24-pane windows with central opening sashes. First floor early
C19 6-pane sashes. Traces of earlier, lower (probably stone-mullioned) windows.
The Retreat has a raking dormer with Yorkshire sash. Right return of Guides Cottage
shows top-glazed boarded door, in narrow-chamfered alternating-block surround with
heavy lintel, at basement level. Small windows on upper floors, all but one in
old chamfered openings. Small curved kneelers to gable copings.
Listing NGR: NZ9527004869
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 327879
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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