York House
YORK HOUSE, 1, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197512
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- York House
- Statutory Address:
- YORK HOUSE, 1, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197512
- Date first listed:
- 23-Oct-1972
- List Entry Name:
- York House
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORK HOUSE, 1, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
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:
- YORK HOUSE, 1, SOUTH EMBANKMENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87860 51326
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX874510 SOUTH EMBANKMENT 673-1/8/224 (West side) 23/10/72 No.1 York House
GV II
Shops with houses above. Dated 1893 probably by EH Back, the borough surveyor. Mixed construction; timber-framed show fronts with other walls of grey limestone rubble with red brick and some Bathstone dressings; axial stack, 2 rear lateral stacks and a right end stack with tall red brick chimneyshafts in Elizabethan style and C19 pots; tall gabled slate roof. PLAN: 4-room plan with 2 large shops (now knocked together). EXTERIOR: 4 storeys. Ornamental show fronts in Elizabethan style. Timber-framed with jettied floors, projecting bays, balustraded balconies and gabled roofs. North front onto The Quay has 2 wide timber shop windows, mostly original with continuous clerestorey filled with small rectangular panes. First-floor jetty and balconies shelter the shop fronts and are supported on shaped timber brackets. Symmetrical 4-window front above, the outer bays projecting forward containing ovolo-moulded 3-light mullion-and-transom windows, larger lower lights containing original horned sashes without glazing bars. Inner bays with similar 2-light windows. Jetties have shaped joist ends projecting through moulded cornices and shaped brackets on the corners. Framing has narrow panels; criss-cross braces under windows and slate-hung elsewhere (single full-width slates with toothed edges, alternately grey and purple). Gables over windows with diagonal bracing and bargeboards have trellis pattern and finials. East front gable end onto South Embankment in same style, but a little more ornate including a canted bay to the first floor. House door to left in a red brick section. Doorway and side light of painted stone and ovolo-moulded, containing a 6-panel door and overlight. Datestone to left. Gable end of west wall is grey limestone rubble containing Bathstone windows. INTERIOR: Upper floors not inspected but likely to be of interest. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: P.326).
Listing NGR: SX8785251326
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387338
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 326
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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