Description

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TA 0240
5/273

BEVERLEY,
NORTH BAR WITHOUT (east side),
No 56 (The Red House)

1.3.50

GV
II*
Completed 1765. Three storeys in red brick. Five windows, including three in centre break, reglazed in plate glass. Three-sided brick bays added to ground floor in mid to late C19. Very good doorcase with applied Doric columns, frieze with spirited carving of palm leaves and shell, pediment. Six-panel door. Parapet with stone coping. Twin gabled ends to pantile roof. Early C19 wing to side of two storeys with two windows on both storeys and door.

Interior: oval central hall with moulded plaster cornice. Stairs are to side off this hall, and are the only stone and wrought-iron staircase in Beverley: cantilevered stone steps: fine wrought-iron balustrade with mahogany handrail and spiral curtail. Back stair has closed string, plain newels, and moulded handrail. One back ground floor room has modillioned plaster ceiling cornice. Most other rooms altered in C19 with plaster ornament. Firemark of Royal Exchange Assurance Company.

Listing NGR: TA0288540044

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17554624

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)