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Garforth House is a grade I listed building in York, England. The house lies at 54 Micklegate, in the city centre. The site was occupied by two tenements in early-18th century, one of which was purchased by William Garforth, and the other by his nephew, Edmund Garforth. In the 1750s, they cleared the site for the construction of Garforth House ...
Garforth and Swillington is a ward and Swillington is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The ward and parish contain 22 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The area covered by ...
Formerly the prebendal house of Cave and, later, Fenton, [2] Fenton House, at 9 Precentor's Court, is a Grade II* listed building dating to 1680. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] In 2013, the eight-bedroom home was put on the market for £1.1 million.
The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the city was built at 40-42 Aldwark in 1759, and in 1892, the city's first synagogue since the resettlement of the Jews in England opened at 9 Aldwark. However, by the 19th-century, the street was run down, with many houses on the north-east side demolished for the construction of the Ebor Brewery, and ...
This, and the former tram depot, demolished in 2015, were described by the City of York Council as "the only buildings of merit" in the area. [2] [3] The southern part of the street is dominated by office blocks, including Ryedale House, described by Nickolaus Pevsner as "deplorable", and Piccadilly House, described as "far superior". [6]
In 1892, a building was opened to house the city' police headquarters and main fire station. The fire station moved to a new building on the street in 1938, which was demolished in 2018 and replaced with apartments. [1] [2] [4] In 1910, the city's electricity board moved into offices on the street, also setting up a showroom. [1]
The place-name Garforth appears first in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Gereford and Gereforde, with gar-spellings first appearing in 1336 in the form Garford. [3] [4] The name seems to derive from the Norse words gāra ('triangular plot of land', derived from the word gār, 'spear') and ford ('ford)', and thus meant 'ford at a triangular plot of land'.
York's squares are: St Sampson's Square, the old market square at the head of Parliament Street; St Helen's Square, anchored by York Mansion House and St Helen's Church on opposing ends of the square, it also links to York Guildhall which is behind the mansion house overlooking the River Ouse; King's Square, anchored by York's Chocolate Story;