ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM, FISHER HEAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316201
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM
Statutory Address:: ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM, FISHER HEAD

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Date:: 2001-03-18
Reference:: IOE01/03528/09
Rights:: © Mr John Turner. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316201
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 04-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:: ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM
Statutory Address 1:: ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM, FISHER HEAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ROBIN HOOD'S BAY MUSEUM AND READING ROOM, FISHER HEAD

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fylingdales
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: NZ9524504904

Details

NZ 9504 (inset) FYLINGDALES FISHER HEAD, Robin Hood's Bay (south side) 19/79 Robin Hood's Bay Museum 6.10.69. and Reading Room. (formerly listed as Reading Room & Library) GV II Reading room, library, and Museum. circa 1900 remodelling of older building. Peeked coursed stone with ashlar dressings; pantiled roof with stone ridge, coping and kneeler, brick stack. 2 storeys, 2 ;bays and left entrance bay of 1-storey height. At left of main building a boarded door, with big hinges, under a flattened ogee lintel, the surround hollow-chamfered. Right 3-light stone-mullioned windows with leaded glazing. Covet first-floor string. 2-light stone-mullioned window on right and single light on left, all windows chamfered. Left bay holds similar door and round-arched upper window with cross finial; between them an ornamental rain water head. Swept roof has left end coping and kneeler, right end stack. Rear elevation shows older masonry. 1 small fixed light, with headed glazing, and a boarded-up chamfered window in the right bay; also a rooflight.

Listing NGR: NZ9524504904

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Legacy System number:: 327729
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.