Description

SE 3171 RIPON KIRKGATE
1/81 (south side)

6.5.70 Nos 7,
17.12.70 Nos 8 and 9

GV II

Late C16, although only the roof and the chimneybreasts remain as evidence of this;
extended forward to street frontage in late C17 and given the handsome front with
pilastered first floor shown in J M W Turner's drawing of Kirkgate dated 1797 (British
Museum); refronted in mid C19. Stucco. Slate roof. Two storeys. Wooden bracketed
eaves cornice. Six C19 sashes in moulded flush-frames with segmental pediments.
Continuous C19 shopfront: panelled pilasters, eclectic capitals, frieze and
modillioned cornice: mullions with spiral fluting at bottom, and foliate capitals
taking segmental arches with highly ornamental lintels. Three doors in recessed
porches.

C16 roof runs east-west down centre of building, and shows that there were cross-wings
at each end, of which the eastern one may have been extended in early C17.

Listing NGR: SE3130471134

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443042

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)