Grimston Court
GRIMSTON COURT, GRIMSTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148513
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grimston Court
- Statutory Address:
- GRIMSTON COURT, GRIMSTON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1148513
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Grimston Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRIMSTON COURT, GRIMSTON HILL
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:
- GRIMSTON COURT, GRIMSTON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dunnington
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 65540 51830
Details
DUNNINGTON GRIMSTON HILL SE 65 SE (north side) 2/14 Grimston Court GV II House now nursing home. J J H 1903 on plaque with later additions and alterations including range to left of no particular interest. By W Brierley for J J Hunt. Red brick in English bond with sandstone ashlar dressings and slate roof. L-shaped on plan and double-depth. Jacobethan. Main range: 2 storeys, 7 bays. Plinth. Steps to entrance in slightly- projecting, gabled 3rd bay, a Tudor-arch with naturalistic decoration to surround under continuous hoodmould. 5-long-panel door within. Above entrance a 5-light oriel mullion and transom window. Otherwise single lights and 2, 3 and 4-light cavetto-moulded mullion and transom windows. 1st floor band to right 3 bays. 1st floor sill band continues to wing. C20 fire escape to 6th bay. End bay projects to first floor level. Chimney between 6th and 7th bays. Wing: 2 storeys, 4 bays. Flight of steps to end entrance a 5-long-panel door in Tudor-arched surround. 6-light mullion and transom canted bay window to 2nd bay, ground floor. Otherwise single light and 2 and 3-light mullion windows. All windows in quoined ashlar surrounds. Ridge stacks, some star-shaped, some diamonds, some in clusters. Interior: ceilings with Jacobethan moulded plaster decorations. Panelling to some ground floor rooms. 3 Jacobethan fireplaces, one ashlar, otherwise wood. Nuttgens, P., Brierley in Yorkshire, The Architecture of the Turn of The Century, 1984, p.13.
Listing NGR: SE6554051830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326126
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Nuttgens, P, Brierley in Yorkshire The Architecture of the Turn of The Century, (1984), 13
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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