CABMEN'S SHELTER
CABMEN'S SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393142
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- CABMEN'S SHELTER
- Statutory Address:
- CABMEN'S SHELTER, MARKET PLACE

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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393142
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-2009
- List Entry Name:
- CABMEN'S SHELTER
- Statutory Address 1:
- CABMEN'S SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CABMEN'S SHELTER, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ripon
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31230 71248
Reasons for Designation
The Cabmen's Shelter is designated for listing at grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It has a highly decorative Edwardian design, dating from 1911
* It is a nationally rare and well preserved example of a cabmen's shelter, an important reminder of the importance of horse-drawn transport in the early C20, supplied by the well-known firm of Boulton and Paul of Norwich.
Details
RIPON
97/0/10011 MARKET PLACE
19-FEB-09 Cabmen's shelter
II
Cabmen's shelter, 1911 by Boulton and Paul of Norwich and paid for by Sarah Carter of Ripon.
MATERIALS
Timber with ironwork balustrade and guttering, beechwood shingled roof.
FORM
Prefabricated timber building about 2m by 3m, divided up into 4 bays long by 3 bays wide. Door central to one gable end giving access to the undivided interior. The structure is raised onto a low, small wheeled steel chassis dating to 1980 and fixed in place since 1999.
EXTERIOR
Each bay has a glazed upper portion divided up with thin glazing bars, the lower portion being diagonally boarded panels. The bays are divided by decorative pilasters. The lower half of each pilaster features turned sections divided by unturned blocks; the upper half, separating the windows, are fluted, curving outwards to support a shelf that extends around the structure at door lintel height. This narrow shelf has a decorative mini balustrade of iron fretwork which has been described as being in Chinese Chippendale style. This balustrade protects a run of small windows, some of which open for ventilation. Above there is a simply curving eaves cornice supporting the overhanging roof. The roof has small gablettes and is hipped. Covered with beechwood shingles, shingles also used for the ridge and hips. On one side of the shelter, immediately below the windows, there is a maker's plate.
INTERIOR
The interior is plain boarded, finished with a skirting board. The sides have simple built-in benches supported on turned legs.
HISTORY
The shelter was paid for by Sarah Carter (daughter of a former mayor of Ripon) in 1911 for the use of the city's drivers of horse drawn cabs awaiting fares. It was built as a prefabricated building by Boulton and Paul, the Norwich firm which also provided the huts for Scott's 1910-13 Antarctic expedition. It was restored by the Royal Engineers in 1980 who fitted it onto a wheeled chassis to allow it to be moved. It was restored again in circa 1990 following damage caused by a vehicle impact. In 1999 it was fixed in place just a few yards south of its original location.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION
The Cabmen's Shelter is designated at grade II for the following principal reasons
* It has a highly decorative Edwardian design, dating from 1911.
* It is a nationally rare and well preserved example of a cabmen's shelter, an important reminder of the importance of horse-drawn transport in the early C20, supplied by the well-known firm of Boulton and Paul of Norwich.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505585
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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