The Downe Arms

THE DOWNE ARMS, A 170

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316130
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
The Downe Arms
Statutory Address:
THE DOWNE ARMS, A 170
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316130
Date first listed:
18-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
The Downe Arms
Statutory Address 1:
THE DOWNE ARMS, A 170

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE DOWNE ARMS, A 170

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wykeham
National Grid Reference:
SE 96428 83354

Details

NORTH YORKSHIRE SCARBOROUGH 5341

SE 9683 WYKEHAM A 170 (north side)

14/115 The Downe Arms

18.1.67 GV II

Inn. c1800, with later C19 alteration and extension; further extension in C20. For the Wykeham estate. Dressed sandstone to front and right side; coursed rubble sandstone to left side and rear; timber eaves course; pantile roof. Central-entry plan, 2 rooms deep; rear service wing added before 1850. 3-storey front, of 3 recessed, round-arched bays. Central door of 6 flush panels beneath radial fanlight, in plain round-arched surround. 12- pane sash over door. Ground and first-floor windows in flanking bays are tripartite sashes; segment-headed 6-pane sashes to second floor. End stacks at base of hipped roof. Rear: radial-glazed staircase window to right of centre. Interior: closed-string, dogleg staircase rises through house to second floor. Moulded handrail ramped-up, with reeded balusters, and some re-used C18 turned balusters between first and second floors. Moulded plaster cornice to staircase hall and ground-floor passage. Doors of 6 raised and fielded panels. Ground-floor room to right has fireplace with moulded surround and fluted cornice, flanked by alcove cupboards with panelled doors. Moulded dado rail.

Listing NGR: SE9642883354

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
327435
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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