SPENCE'S COURT

SPENCE'S COURT, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316760
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: SPENCE'S COURT
Statutory Address:: SPENCE'S COURT, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1316760
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: SPENCE'S COURT
Statutory Address 1:: SPENCE'S COURT, MAIN STREET

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

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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:: SPENCE'S COURT, MAIN STREET

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Carleton
National Grid Reference:: SD 97531 49672

Details

SD 9749 CARLETON MAIN STREET

10/62 Spence's Court (formerly listed under Skipton 10.9.54 Road as Spence's Hospital)

GV II

Almshouses, 1693 renovated 1872, and altered 1974. Rubble with dressed stone and stone slate roof. Compact U-plan. Two storeys. Coped gables with kneelers and four stacks. The detail of the external walls dates largely from 1974 when wide boxed sashes were placed in the east wall and some casements in the others. Splayed stone surrounds to windows in gable walls. The courtyard is closed by a short wall with large panelled gatepiers, carrying simple wrought iron gates that may be original. The piers have pulvinated friezes, moulded cornices and ball finials. Immediately behind the gates stone steps lead to a wooden gallery carried on octagonal wooden columns, now carried across the far wall but originally interrupted. Four doors to ground floor have architraves as has the larger door of the chapel in the far walls. Two doors inserted across the corners of the courtyard are now blocked. The interiors have been altered to provide 8 units with a warden's flat in the former chapel, used more recently as a wash-house. A long inscription records the benefaction, renovation and alterations (dated 1955): 1698 Ferrand Spence; 1872 Agnes Varditt Niven; 1955 Jessie Blossom Coulthurst of Gargrave.

Listing NGR: SD9753149672

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Legacy System number:: 324441
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.