Boroughbridge is a civil parish in the former Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 76 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, one is at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the town of Boroughbridge, the villages of Aldborough and Minskip, and the surrounding area. Most of the listed buildings are houses, cottages and associated structures, shops and offices, and the others include churches, items in churchyards, a village cross, a bridge, public houses, farmhouses and farm buildings, a former court house, a milepost, two telephone kiosks, and a set of stocks.
A group of former cottages on a corner site, some converted into shops. They are in rendered brick with roofs of Welsh slate and tile, and have two storeys. There are three bays on High Street and five on Market Square. On the corner is an ornate entrance with pilasters and a hood, flanked on each front by a modern bow window. On High Street there is a doorway flanked by cantedbay windows with a bracketed cornice, and on the Market Square front are two shopfronts. In the upper floor, most of the windows are sashes, some in architraves, and on High Street there are two casement windows.[2]
The oldest surviving part of the church is a chantry chapel, with the building gradually rebuilt, including the reconstruction of the south aisle in 1827. It is built in red sandstone with a lead roof, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a north chapel, and a west tower. The tower has angle buttresses, a west window with a pointed arch and hood mould, a clock face on the west side, two-light bell openings, and an embattledparapet. The east window has five lights and is in Perpendicular style.[3][4]
The memorial slab is in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Aldborough. It consists of a stone about 7 feet (2.1 m) long and 9 inches (230 mm) high, raised on bricks. On it is a weathered relief depicting the bust of a woman with her arms folded across her chest, set in a roundel.[5]
The cross, which has been moved from elsewhere, is in stone. It consists of four diagonal shafts with spurs between, in three diminishing stages, with mouldedcapitals. The shafts of the middle stage have crocketed capitals, and the top stage has an ill-fitting crocketed capital.[6][7]
The bridge carries the B6265 road over the River Ure, and has subsequently been widened, including in 1784 by John Carr. It is in sandstone, and consists of three segmental arches. There are two pointed cutwaters on the east side and semicircular cutwaters on the west, carried up as buttresses. Under the arches are five wide ribs. The parapets continue beyond the bridge to the north, and have square terminals.[8][9]
The cottage is timber framed and, apart from the upper floor on the front, has been encased in reddish-brown brick, and has a pantile roof, with raised brick verges and corbelled out at the gable ends. There are two storeys, two bays, and extensions at both ends. The timber framing in the upper floor is close studded, and the windows are casements.[10][11]
The public house, which has been altered and extended, has a timber-framed core, it is encased in brick, whitewashed and partly rendered, and has a pantile roof and a gable with bargeboards. There are two storeys and an L-shaped plan. The gable end faces the road, and contains a porch and two square bay windows. On the east front are horizontally-sliding sash windows, and inside there is an inglenook fireplace.[12]
A large house in red brick, with stone dressings, quoins, and a Welsh slate roof. There are three storeys and attics, twin gables on the front and rear, and a full-height gabled bay projecting from the centre on three sides. On the west side is a three-storey cantedbay window with an embattledparapet. The windows are mullioned and transomed.[10][13]
The wall to the northeast of the house is in red brick. It has an open, quasi-balustraded frieze on the upper part, it is surmounted by a scalloped shaped parapet divided by tall square brick piers with ball finials, and it contains a Tudor arched gateway.[14]
A large house that has been altered. It is in rendered brick with pilasters, a sill band and a hipped tile roof. There are two storeys and eleven bays. On the front is a porch, and the windows are sashes.[8][15]
The farmhouse is in reddish-brown brick and has a pantile roof. There are two storeys and three bays, with the gable end facing the street. On the front are two doorways, and the windows are casements with segmental-arched heads.[16]
Probably originally a barn, later converted into a house, it is in reddish-brown brick, on a plinth, with cogged eaves and a swept pantile roof. There is one storey and an attic, and five bays. On the front is a cantedbay window with a hipped tile roof, the other windows are casements, and there is a modern flat dormer.[18]
A former manor house that was remodelled and extended in about 1840. It is rendered, and has a hipped roof, a main block of three storeys and five bays, and an L-shaped plan, with a right wing of two storeys and five bays. The right bay of the main block is bowed, and contains a Doric porch in antis, above which are sash windows with pilasters and entablatures. The other windows are sashes in architraves and have lintels with keystones, those in the upper floor breaking through the former eaves cornice.[10][19]
The cottage, which incorporates an earlier cottage on the right, is in rendered brick, with dentilledeaves, and a pantile roof with raised verges. There are two storeys and two bays, and the lower two-storey two-bay former cottage forms a wing to the right. In the centre is a modern porch, flanked by cantedbay windows with hipped roofs, and above are casement windows. The wing contains a garage door and a dentilled bow window, and above are horizontally-sliding sash windows.[20]
The cottage is in reddish-brown brick, with a stepped floor band, dentilledeaves, and a swept pantile roof with raised brick verges. There are two storeys and two bays. In the right bay is a blocked doorway, the entrance is in the east gable end, and the windows are sashes with flush wood architraves and stone sills.[21]
The cottage is in pinkish-brown brick on a cobble plinth, with renderedgable ends, a stepped floor band, dentilledeaves, and a swept pantile roof with raised brick verges. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front are two doorways, and the windows are horizontally-sliding sashes, the openings in the ground floor under segmental brick arches.[22]
A house divided into flats and a hairdresser's salon, in reddish-brown brick, with a plinth on the east, stepped eaves and a steep pantile roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with reeded engaged columns, a radial fanlight, and an open pediment. To the right is a 20th-century shopfront, and to the left are two sash windows in architraves with segmental heads. The upper floor contains modern casement windows.[24]
An inn, later a private house, in red brick with pilasters, a cogged and stepped floor band and eaves, and a tile roof. There are two storeys and four bays. On the front is a doorway with a pointed arch, and two cantedbay windows with hipped roofs. The other windows are sashes, those on the front are horizontally-sliding, and at the rear they have segmental-arched heads.[25]
The cottage is in brick, rendered at the front, with a sill band, stepped and dentilledeaves, tumbled-in brickwork in the gable, and a pantile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The doorway is in the centre, it is flanked by cantedbay windows, and in the upper floor are sash windows.[26]
A cottage and farmhouse, later converted into two shops, it is in pinkish-brown brick, rendered on the front, with stepped and dentilledeaves, tumbled-in brickwork in the gable, and a swept pantile roof with raised brick verges. There are two storeys and three bays. On the front are three cantedbay windows with bracketed cornices. Between them are two doorways with fanlights, and in the upper floor are sash windows in architraves.[27]
The public house, later used for other purposes, is in rendered brick, with a floor band, stepped and dentilledeaves, and a pantile roof with raised verges. The main block has two storeys and three bays, and it contains sash windows. There are later extensions to the south and east, with casement windows.[28]
A row of four shops on a corner site, the corner shop later used for other purposes. They are in rendered brick, with dentilledeaves, a pantile roof, and two storeys. The corner building has two bays on Fishergate and three on Market Square. On the Market Square front is a two-storey bay window. The other windows are sashes, some horizontally-sliding. Each of the shops has a single bay, and it contains a 19th-century shopfront with pilasters and a cornice.[29]
A former coaching inn on the site of an earlier house, incorporating fabric from the house. It is stuccoed, and has a slate roof and two storeys. The Bridge Street front has a modillioneavescornice and six bays. In the centre is a doorway with consoles, a cornice and a pediment, and is flanked by iron boot scrapers. On the front are three cantedbay windows, one with two storeys, and the other windows are sashes in architraves. Along Fishergate are 15 bays, six bay windows, and a central gabled section with French doors.[31]
A house and shop in pinkish-brown brick with a pantile roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a shopfront, flanked by doorways in architraves. The windows are sashes with architraves and gauged flat brick arches.[32]
A row of five cottages later converted for other uses. They are in rendered brick, with dentilledeaves and a pantile roof. There are two storeys and a total of nine bays. The upper floor contains sash windows, and in the ground floor most openings have been altered except for a square bay window with a modillioncornice, and a door with an oblong fanlight.[33]
The farmhouse is in pinkish-brown brick, on a plinth, with stepped eaves, and a swept pantile roof with raised brick verges. There are two storeys, three irregular bays and a continuous rear outshut. The windows are sashes in architraves, those in the ground floor with gauged flat brick arches.[34]
The former court house is in reddish-brown brick, with stepped dentilledeaves and a pantile roof with raised brick verges. There is a single storey, and the gable end faces the square. On the gable end is an external brick staircase leading to a blocked doorway, and set into it is a stone shelf used as a mounting block, and an inscribed plaque.[10][35]
The chest tomb is in the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Aldborough, to the south of the church tower. It is in sandstone, and commemorates Mark Smithson, a benefactor of the church. The tomb has flutedpilasters at the angles and in the centre of the exposed side, a cornice, and two oval sunk panels with inscriptions.[36]
The house and adjoining cottage to the right are in whitewashed brick, with dentilledeaves, the house with a floor band, and a tile roof with stone coping and kneelers, the cottage with a pantile roof. The house has three storeys and two bays. In the centre is a doorway flanked by cantedbay windows, and the upper floors contain sash windows in architraves, splayed stuccoed channelled lintels. The cottage also has sash windows, and all the openings in it have segmental heads.[37]
A house and office in brown brick, with a floor band, dentilledeaves, and a pantile roof with stone coping. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has an oblong fanlight, the windows are sashes, and all the openings have stuccoed wedge lintels and keystones. The forecourt is enclosed by railings.[38]
A cottage in painted brick on a plinth, with dentilledeaves, and a pantile roof with raised verges. There are two storeys and two bays, and a single-storey wing to the left. On the front is a doorway and horizontally-sliding sash windows.[39]
A pair of shops in colourwashed brick, with stepped and dentilledeaves and Welsh slate roofs. There are two storeys, the left shop had two bays, and the right shop has five. Between the shops is a round-arched doorway with attached columns, friezes with paterae, a fanlight, and an open pediment, and in the right bay is a carriage entrance. The left shop has a 20th-century shopfront, and the right shopfront dates from the 19th or early 20th century, and has pilasters, a cornice and brackets. In the upper floor are sash windows with splayed lintels.[40]
A cottage in rendered brick, with a pantile roof, two storeys and two bays. In the centre is a round-arched doorway with a radial fanlight. This is flanked by bow windows, and in the upper floor are segmental-arched sash windows.[41]
A house, at one time a shop, in pinkish-brown brick, with stepped eaves, and a pantile roof with stone coping and kneelers. There are two storeys and three bays. Steps lead up to the central doorway with a three-light fanlight. The windows are sashes, and all the openings have stuccoed wedge lintels.[42]
The linking building is in painted brick and has a pantile roof. There is a single storey and five irregular bays. The left three bays contain round-arched sash windows, to the right is a doorway approached by steps, and a flat-headed sash window, and in the roof is a modern dormer.[43]
A pair of cottages in brick, partly rendered, with a pantile roof. There are two storeys, and each cottage has one bay. On the front are two doorways, and sash windows in flush wooden architraves.[44]
The house is in pinkish-brown brick with dentilledeaves and a pantile roof with raised verges. There are two storeys and three bays. The central round-headed doorway has a rendered surround and a radial fanlight. The windows are sashes in architraves, with splayed lintels.[45]
The cottage is in pinkish brick with dentilledeaves and a tile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. In the centre is a doorway with an oblong fanlight, the windows are sashes, and all the openings have segmental heads.[46]
Originally a pair of cottages in pale brown brick, with stepped and dentilledeaves, the left cottage with a floor band, and over all is a pantile roof. There are two storeys, each cottage has three bays, and between them is a bay containing a carriage arch over which is a small window. The left cottage has a doorway with an oblong fanlight, the doorway in the right cottage has a doorway under a segmental arch, and above it is a blocked window. The other windows are sashes in architraves, with flat gauged brick arches.[47]
A house in brown brick, with a modillioneavescornice, and a Welsh slate roof with stone coping. There are two storeys and three bays. Steps flanked by iron railings lead to a doorway with attached columns, paterae in the friezes, a radial fanlight, and on open modillionpediment. This is flanked by bow windows, most of the other windows are sashes in architraves, on the north side is a segmental-headed entrance, and at the rear is a round-arched staircase window. The forecourt is enclosed by iron railings.[49]
The cottage is in whitewashed brick and has a swept pantile roof. There are two storeys and three bays. On the front is a trellis porch and another doorway to the left. The windows are sashes in architraves, those in the ground floor with segmental-arched heads.[50]
The house is in pale brown brick, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone coping and kneelers. There are two storeys and four bays. In the centre is a prostyleRoman Doric porch and a doorway with a patterned fanlight in an architrave. The windows are sashes with channelled stuccoed wedge lintels and stone sills.[51]
The wall along the front of the house is in pale brown brick, dwarf in places, and swept up at the ends and near the centre to a height of about 1.5 metres (4 ft 11 in). On the lower parts are wrought iron railings with bud finials, and the gate is similar.[52]
A cottage with an attached barn in reddish-brown brick with a pantile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The entrance is in the gable end, the windows are casements, and the openings have segmental heads. To the north is a barn containing opposed wagon doors and slit vents.[53]
The house and attached shop are in brown brick, with a wooden eavescornice and a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with reeded pilasters, paterae in the friezes, a fanlight, and an open pediment. To the right is a bow window, and to the left is a square modillioned shopfront with a doorway on its left. The upper floor contains sash windows.[54]
The house is in brick, rendered on the front, and has a Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a doorway with an oblong fanlight in an architrave, and the windows are sashes in architraves. In front of the house is a dwarf wall with plain iron railings.[56]
The garden wall is in brick with stone coping. The side wall is low, and at the front is a dwarf wall with wrought iron railings ad a double gate. At the angles are rusticated stone piers with ogee caps.[57]
The building, which possibly includes earlier material, is in stuccoed brick, with a wooden eavescornice, dentilled eaves, and a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are three storeys and seven bays, the middle three bays projecting under a pediment with a round window. In the right two bays is a shopfront, and the windows are sashes with splayed lintels. In the left return is a doorway with a decorated radial fanlight, and a cantedbay window.[8][58]
The house is in brown brick, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone verges. There are two storeys and two bays. The central doorway has an oblong fanlight, and the windows are sashes, those in the ground floor with stuccoed splayed lintels. The forecourt is enclosed by railings.[59]
The former threshing barn and attached stable with a hayloft above are in reddish-brown brick on a cobble plinth, with dentilledeaves and pantile roofs. The gable end of the barn faces the street, and contains a pitching door and vents in various patterns. Elsewhere, there are wagon doors, stable doors and slatted windows.[60]
The house is in pale brown brick and has a pantile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The central doorway has an oblong fanlight, it is flanked by bow windows, and in the upper floor are sash windows with channelled stucco heads and plain sills.[61]
A cottage, later a shop, in rendered brick with a pantile roof. There are two storeys and two bays. The doorway is in the centre, to the left is a shop window, the glazing bars formed by pilasters, and the other windows are sashes in flush wood architraves.[62]
A large house designed by J. B. Papworth, it is rendered, on a plinth, and has a floor band, a cornice, and a double-span roof in Lakelandslate. There are two storeys and three bays. In the centre is a projecting porch with consoles, and a doorway with a fanlight. The windows are sashes, in the ground floor they are tripartite, in segmental arched recesses and divided by pilasters, and in the upper floor they are in architraves. On the north front is a two-storey cantedbay window, and to the right is a lower wing with a hipped roof in Welsh slate.[8][63]
The wall at the entrance to the grounds is in yellow sandstone, it has a heavy plinth, and the end piers are in pink sandstone. The gate piers are in yellow and pink sandstone, each has a cornice, and a narrower upper section with a bracketed cornice and a pyramidal cap. The railings and gates are in wrought iron.[64]
The house is in pinkish-brown brick with sandstone dressings, a floor band and an overhanging hipped Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and a basement, and five bays. Five steps lead up to a central porch with baseless engaged Tuscan columns, distylein antis. Above it is a window in a stone recess flanked by pairs of pilasters with pilaster jambs. The windows are sashes, and at the rear are two bow windows with bracketed cornices.[65]
A pair of houses, the right one with a shopfront. They are in pinkish-brown brick with dentilledeaves, a pantile roof hipped on the right, and three storeys. The left house has two bays, a central doorway with an oblong fanlight, and sash windows in architraves, the openings in the lower two floors with painted wedge lintels. The right house has three bays, a shopfront in the ground floor, sash windows with gauged brick arches in the middle floor, and casement windows in the top floor.[66]
The house is in pale brown brick with a hipped Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. Steps lead up to the central doorway that has a patterned oblong fanlight, a stone architrave and a cornice. The windows are sashes with patterned stuccoed heads and keystones. Along the front of the garden are railings.[67]
A house in pinkish-brown brick with stuccoed coved eaves and an overhanging hipped Welsh slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays. Steps lead up to the central doorway that has a stuccoed surround with pilasters and an entablature, and a decorated oblong fanlight. The windows are sashes with stuccoed channelled wedge lintels. To the west and at right angles is a lower wing.[68]
A shop and a house in pinkish-brown brick, with a modillioneavescornice and a Welsh slate roof. There are three storeys and four bays. In the third bay is a doorway with attached Tuscan columns, a decorated fanlight and an entablature, and to the right is a cantedbay window with a modillion cornice. The area at the front is enclosed by iron railings. In the left two bays is an early 20th-century shopfront. The upper floors contain sash windows with channelled stuccoedlintels.[69]
A public house, later converted for residential use, in brick, partly colourwashed, partly rendered, with a wooden eavescornice, and a Welsh slate roof with a kneeler on the right. There are three storeys and three bays. In the right bay is a round-arched doorway with a fanlight, and the windows are sashes with splayed channelled stucco heads and plain sills.[70]
The cottage is in pale brown brick, and has a pantile roof with raised verges. There are two storeys and three bays. The central doorway has an oblong fanlight, and the windows are sashes with splayed renderedlintels.[71]
The house is in pinkish-brown brick, with stone dressings, stepped and dentilledeaves, and a tile roof with raised stone verges and kneelers, and is in Tudor Revival style. There are two storeys and five bays. In the centre is a later porch with quoins, a band and battlements, and the entrance on the side. The windows are chamfered and mullioned, with two lights and hood moulds, and have lattice glazing.[73]
The house is in reddish-brown brick with stone dressings, dentilledeaves, and a tile roof with raised stone verges and kneelers. There are two storeys and two bays, and it is in Tudor Revival style. The central doorway has alternating block jambs, a flattened Tudor arch, and a hood mould. The windows have two lights, chamferedmullions, lozenge glazing, and hood moulds.[74]
The milepost is on the east side of the A168 road. It is in stone with iron cladding, and has a triangular plan and a rounded top. The top is inscribed "FERRYBRIDGE AND BOROUGHBRIDGE ROAD" and "BOROUGHBRIDGE", on the left side are the distances to Wetherby, Aberford, and Ferrybridge, and on the right side the distance to Boroughbridge.[75]
The church, designed by Mallinson and Healey in Decorated style, is in sandstone with roofs of stone slate and tile. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and a west tower. The tower has three stages, a north stair turret, stepped angle buttresses rising to embattled corner turrets, string courses, a west window with a pointed arch and hood mould, lancet windows and clock faces in the middle stage, two-light bell openings with hood moulds, and an embattled parapet. Re-set into the internal walls are late Norman architectural fragments.[76][77]
Covering the well is a stone pedestal and urn, and this is surrounded by an open octagonal structure approached by steps. There are eight Doric columns on pedestals carrying an entablature with metopes and triglyphs. Above are brick gables containing roundels, a tile roof, and a round-arched wooden cupola with a weathervane.[8][78]
The public house is in painted render with applied timber framing, and has a tile roof. There are two storeys and an attic, a front range of four bays, a recessed bay on the right, and a later rear extension. On the front are two doorways with triangular canopies, and four cantedbay windows. The upper floor contains two-light casement windows, and in the roof are six flat-roofed dormers.[79]
The K6 type telephone kiosk in Fishergate was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[80]
The K6 type telephone kiosk in Market Square was designed by Giles Gilbert Scott. Constructed in cast iron with a square plan and a dome, it has three unperforated crowns in the top panels.[81]