Grand Opera House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1975. Theatre. 9 related planning applications.
Grand Opera House
- WRENN ID
- broken-moat-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Harrogate and Knaresborough MP: Tom Gordon (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1975
- Type
- Theatre
- Address
- Grand Opera House, 1-7, Oxford Street, Harrogate
- OS grid reference
- SE 302 554
- Coordinates
- 53.99438, -1.53997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grand Opera House, built around 1900 by Frank A Tugwell, is located on an irregular corner site on Oxford Street. The building has three storeys and attics, featuring an eight-bay entrance front with an octagonal tower at the corner topped by a cupola. The roof is slated, with parapets and coped gables. The structure is made of red brick with stone dressings, and it includes architraved sash windows, some adorned with cornices and pediments. The theatre entrance is arched, and there is a modern shop present.
Inside, the Edwardian decor showcases plasterwork embellished with floral motifs and gilding. The ceiling is panelled with a central dome, while the carved circle and balcony fronts are decorated with masks, swags, and putti. The theatre features two tiers of boxes with bowed fronts, flanked by pilasters that support a cornice with broken pediments. The proscenium opening is architraved, featuring a central oval cartouche flanked by cornucopiae, and the proscenium itself has a moulded cornice and frieze enriched with masks and scroll decoration. The entrance foyer is particularly interesting, designed in the 'Art Nouveau' style, with a frieze in low relief by Frances Darlington. The interior is included in the listing for its significance.
Local climate
Grand Opera House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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