Maxwells Hotel (Numbers 50, 52 and 54)
MAXWELLS HOTEL (NUMBERS 50, 52 AND 54), 50-58, WALMGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256340
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Maxwells Hotel (Numbers 50, 52 and 54)
- Statutory Address:
- MAXWELLS HOTEL (NUMBERS 50, 52 AND 54), 50-58, WALMGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256340
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Maxwells Hotel (Numbers 50, 52 and 54)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAXWELLS HOTEL (NUMBERS 50, 52 AND 54), 50-58, WALMGATE
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:
- MAXWELLS HOTEL (NUMBERS 50, 52 AND 54), 50-58, WALMGATE
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 60738 51605
Details
YORK
SE6051NE WALMGATE 1112-1/17/1163 (North East side) 19/08/71 Nos.50-58 (Even) Maxwell's Hotel (Nos.50, 52 and 54) (Formerly Listed as: WALMGATE Nos.52-58 (Even))
GV II
Four houses; now hotel with cafe, and amusement arcade. Early C19, with later C19 alteration, and extension to No.54. No.50 retains original shopfront, reglazed; others altered, that to No.58 late C19. MATERIALS: No.50 rendered at front with eaves cornice of brick dentils; remainder of brown brick in Flemish bond with modillion eaves cornice of timber; shopfronts of timber; pantile roofs with brick stacks. Extension to No.54 of pink-cream mottled brick in English garden-wall bond with slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 5-window front. Carriage arch with timber lintel beneath No.56. Hotel entrance in shopfront to Nos 52 and 54. Shopfront to No.50 has jambs of convex panelling with roundels in the head, and glazed and beaded panel door to right of shallow 3-light bow window over beaded panel riser. No.58 has shopfront of panelled pilasters and modillion cornice between terminal consoles carved with Prince of Wales' feathers: glazed and panelled doors with overlights incorporating same motif flank 3-light shop window with colonnette mullions, over panelled riser. On first floor, No.50 has 4-pane sash window with painted sill; Nos 52 and 54 have tripartite bow windows, that to No.54 later insertion, with 8:12:8-pane sashes: No.56 has 4-pane sash with narrow painted sill and flat arch of rubbed brick; No.58 has canted bay window with 1-pane sash and dentilled cornice. Second floor windows are altered sashes, all with painted sills. Rear: No.52 has door of 6 raised and fielded panels, some 16-pane sash windows and radial-glazed staircase window beneath round arch of orange brick. 2-storey 5-bay wing to No.54, with narrow 1-pane or 4-pane sash windows with stone sills and heavy lintels. INTERIORS: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 237).
Listing NGR: SE6074051610
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465006
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 237
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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