Description

NZ 8809-NZ 8909 WHITBY LARPOOL

10/601 Weighing Machine House
at NGR NZ 8985 0981

II
Weighing Machine House building C1835; built for the Whitby-Scarborough Railway Co,
engineer Robert Stephenson. Finely cut ashlar with ashlar dressings. Single storey.
Semi-circular plan. North-west front has a large window opening with raised and
curved ashlar surround, the wall is topped by a curved shallow ashlar cornice. Either
side are set back doorways with curved ashlar surrounds and single further doorways
also with curved surrounds set at right angles. The curved rear wall has 2 side
windows and a central rear blocked window. This building is in a ruinous state,
many of the stones lying loose around the site.

Listing NGR: NZ8984809812

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Whitby Weighing Machine House at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26532897

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)