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Former Gas House

A Grade II Listed Building in St. Martin's, North Yorkshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.4026 / 54°24'9"N

Longitude: -1.7275 / 1°43'39"W

OS Eastings: 417786

OS Northings: 500830

OS Grid: NZ177008

Mapcode National: GBR JKCJ.SK

Mapcode Global: WHC6D.FLLQ

Plus Code: 9C6WC73C+3X

Entry Name: Former Gas House

Listing Date: 6 November 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1131549

English Heritage Legacy ID: 322183

ID on this website: 101131549

Location: Anchorage Hill, North Yorkshire, DL10

County: North Yorkshire

District: Richmondshire

Civil Parish: St. Martin's

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Richmond with Holy Trinity with Hudswell

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

Tagged with: House

Description


ST MARTINS RICHMONDSHIRE RECREATION NZ 10 SE CENTRE

4/117 Former Gas House

GV II

Former gas house. c1846. By G T Andrews for George Hudson's Great North of England Railway. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof. Single storey, 3 bays. Quoins. 3 tall round-arched quoined openings with ashlar voussoirs giving impression of arcade. Central opening with board doors. Outer openings double-arched, with glazing in tympana above recessed rubble blocking. Hipped roof with raised louvred ventilator along apex. Interior: to left, 2 round-arched furnaces of burnt bricks. The gas house served the station complex only, being on the other side of the river from the town of Richmond's gasworks. The chimney has been demolished, and the building was derelict at the time of resurvey. One of an important surviving group of railway buildings.

Listing NGR: NZ1778600830

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