Northcliffe House

NORTHCLIFFE HOUSE, CARGATE HILL, FILEY, YO14 9BZ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316453
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Northcliffe House
Statutory Address:
NORTHCLIFFE HOUSE, CARGATE HILL, FILEY, YO14 9BZ
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316453
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1985
List Entry Name:
Northcliffe House
Statutory Address 1:
NORTHCLIFFE HOUSE, CARGATE HILL, FILEY, YO14 9BZ

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:
NORTHCLIFFE HOUSE, CARGATE HILL, FILEY, YO14 9BZ

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Filey
National Grid Reference:
TA 11876 80686

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/02/2016

TA 1 80 and TA 11 80
11/1

NORTH YORKSHIRE
SCARBOROUGH BOROUGH COUNCIL

FILEY
CARGATE HILL (north side)
Northcliffe House

(Formerly listed as Northcliffe)


II
House. 1891-93. By W. Brierley for Miss E. Clarke. Jacobethan style. Dressed sandstone; ashlar dressings; tiled roof. Main front: 2 storeys, 5 bays, gabled at ends and centre with attics, recessed between. Off-centre castellated porch with dated cartouche over basket arch. Gabled bay to right has 2-storey, 3 window canted bay, with castellated parapet. Mullion windows with square leaded lights throughout, with transoms to ground floor. Moulded first floor band. Coped gables with ball finials. C20 dormers. Rear: 3-light mullion and double transom staircase window with trefoil heads and decorative glazing. At end left is a 3-storey castellated tower with raised bands at first floor, eaves and parapet levels. 3-storey canted bay to seaward front. Left front: former service range with conical-roofed kitchen and scrolled, bracketed eaves. Irregular stacks pierce the pitched roof. A number of Arts and Crafts wrought iron features survive including a filigree bell pull to right of porch entrance, a lantern within the porch, and a bracketed bell hung over the kitchen yard.

H. Muthesius, Das Englische Haus, figs. 200 and 214.


Listing NGR: TA1187680686

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Legacy System number:
326938
Legacy System:
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Sources

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Muthesius, H, Das Englische Haus, (1911)

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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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