Gargrave House
GARGRAVE HOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390864
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Gargrave House
- Statutory Address:
- GARGRAVE HOUSE, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390864
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Gargrave House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARGRAVE HOUSE, WEST STREET
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GARGRAVE HOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gargrave
- National Grid Reference:
- SD9284054516
Details
1683/0/10002
24-JUN-04
GARGRAVE
WEST STREET
Gargrave
Gargrave House
II
House, now nursing home, completed 1917 by architect James B Dunn for J W Coulthurst. Yorkshire ragstone facing in snecked rubble, under whitemoss slates from Caithness. Main block facing south-west over formal gardens, irregular window pattern. Garden front: main entrance door with pilasters and open pediment flanked by windows, three windows above, double height bow to either side, right hand with first floor balcony, both with gabled pediments. To left, two French windows between smaller ground floor windows, three first floor windows and three dormers. South-east front with projecting double arched portico, tall windows to ground and first floor, roof dormers with round arched tops. Single storey extension to north-west.
INTERIOR: drawing room and dining room to right and left of entrance hall with second hall to porticoed entrance. Library and business room behind, kitchen to front beyond dining room and service rooms behind, two staircases, main one with domed skylight. All these rooms virtually intact with a wealth of Baroque detail in fireplaces, cornices, ceiling decoration, fitted cupboards, doorways and other decorative details, including fully panelled library. Main open well staircase has fine barleysugar balusters and a wooden handrail, with pillars supporting the open landing at first floor.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492216
- 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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