Tenter Lodge

3, WATERSIDE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315619
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Tenter Lodge
Statutory Address:
3, WATERSIDE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1315619
Date first listed:
12-Dec-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
17-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Tenter Lodge
Statutory Address 1:
3, WATERSIDE
Statutory Address 2:
TENTER LODGE, 1, WATERSIDE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
3, WATERSIDE
Statutory Address:
TENTER LODGE, 1, WATERSIDE

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 34599 57164

Details

SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH WATERSIDE (north side, off) 6/199 No 1 (Tenter Lodge)

GV II

The address shall be amended to read: WATERSIDE (north side, off)

No 1 (Tenter Lodge) and No 3 The description shall be amended to read:

House, now 2 houses. Early C19, built for William Ibbetson, with later C19 additions and alterations. Red brick, random bond, Westmorland slate roof. Originally 5 bays plus single bay square tower to right, now divided into 4 bay house and 2 bay house. Built into the hillside, mostly 2 storeys. Tenter Lodge to left has half-glazed door with fanlight in reeded pilastered surround with panelled reveals and deep cornice. To either side 16 pane sashes in flush frames and beyond to right a 2-light casement win- dow. Above 4 16 pane sashes. All windows with segmental heads. Hipped roof with brick ridge stack. Left return has central glazed door with segment headed over- light flanked by segment headed 16 pane sashes, at first floor level of main front. Beyond to left is a 2 storey tower which has glazing bar sash below and painted pointed window above. Castellated parapets. No 3 Waterside, attached to right of main front, has glazed door and 2-light side sliding sash to ground floor of left bay with 16 pane sash above, all below segment heads, and advanced 3 storey tower to right with segment headed glazed door and 2-light side sliding sash on ground floor, which is below that of the main house. Above there are glazed doors to balcony to left and 2-light side sliding sash to right. Above again a similar sash to centre. Castellated parapets. Interior of Tenter Lodge has moulded panels, fluted columns, marble fireplace, arid reeded doorcase with paterae to entrance hall. Stick baluster staircase with ramped handrail and scrolled tread end, also C18 semi-circular headed cupboard niche with shaped shelves to side. Left ground floor room has segmental headed niches with insert- ed relief panels and columned fireplace. Upper sitting room with Adam style fireplace flanked by glazed semi-circular headed cupboards, and elaborate doorcase. Staircase hall, lower and upper sitting rooms, all with moulded panels to walls and moulded cornices. William Ibbetson operated the dye works at the base of Gallons Steps (q,v. ).M Mann, The Old Dye House, 1982 (Knaresborough Museum pamphlet).

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SE 3457 KNARESBOROUGH WATERSIDE (north side, off)

6/199 No 1 (Tenter Lodge)

GV II

House. 1780 for William Ibbetson. Pale red brick, random bond, Westmorland slate roof. Central half-glazed door with fanlight in wooden surround with panelled reveals, reeded pilasters, and deep cornice. Flanking 16-pane sashes in flush frames, 3 sash windows with glazing bars to first floor, all segmental-headed. Right: 2-storey, 2-bay addition with crenellated turret, restored C20. Hipped roof and ridge stacks to left and right. Left return: castellated block far left, with Gothick windows. Sash windows with glazing bars to right. William Ibbetson operated the dye works at the base of Gallons Steps (q.v.). M Mann, The Old Dye House, 1982 (Knaresborough Museum pamphlet).

Listing NGR: SE3460457163

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
330869
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Mann, M, The Old Dye House, (1982)

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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