TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL

TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380311
Date first listed:: 08-May-2000
List Entry Name:: TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380311
Date first listed:: 08-May-2000
List Entry Name:: TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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:: TOWN WALL ADJACENT TO FORMER CONVENT SCHOOL, QUEEN STREET

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 04212 88910

Details

TA 0488 QUEEN STREET 782/4/10021 (West side) 08-MAY-00 Town Wall adjacent to Former Convent S chool

II

Also Known As: Town Wall, ST THOMAS STREET Town wall. C15 with C17 additions and C19 repair. Coursed stone topped with brick and rendered. Slightly curved section of defensive wall in two sections that to north-east slightly higher. North-west front has patchy C20 render with buttress at junction of the two sections. South-east front completely rendered with various buttresses. This is the only section of Scarborough's former town defences which still survives above ground.

Listing NGR: TA0421288910

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Legacy System number:: 480295
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.