The White House
THE WHITE HOUSE, 28, WATER END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256263
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 28, WATER END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256263
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The White House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 28, WATER END
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:
- THE WHITE HOUSE, 28, WATER END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 59134 52961
Details
YORK
SE5952NW WATER END 1112-1/6/1179 (North West side) 24/06/83 No.28 The White House (Formerly Listed as: WATER END No.28 Green Tree Cottage)
II
Public house, now house. Early C19, altered C20. Painted roughcast with exposed brick side walls. Slate M-roof, with 2 gables facing road. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 2 main bays, with one below each gable. The ground-floor windows project on timber brackets and have slated pentices. They are of 3 lights with timber mullions. The main 1st floor windows are of 3 lights with a transom and have casements. In the centre there is a small casement window. The central doorway has a roughcast chamfered Tudor-arched surround, and a slated pentice on shaped timber brackets. The door is partly glazed. The gable verges project. Chimneys to left and right, with tall partly-rendered caps. History. INTERIOR: not inspected. The building was called the Green Tree in 1830 and kept by George Holgate. In 1836 it was called the Sycamore Inn and kept by Alice Holgate. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 68).
Listing NGR: SE5913452961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 68
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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