Terry Memorial Homes
NUMBERS 1 AND 2 TERRY MEMORIAL HOMES, SKELDERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256605
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Terry Memorial Homes
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 TERRY MEMORIAL HOMES, SKELDERGATE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256605
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Terry Memorial Homes
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 TERRY MEMORIAL HOMES, SKELDERGATE
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:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 TERRY MEMORIAL HOMES, SKELDERGATE
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:
- SE6021351430
Details
YORK
SE6051SW SKELDERGATE
1112-1/21/916 (South side (off))
Terry Memorial Homes Nos.1 and 2
GV II
Pair of almshouses, now craft centre. Dated 1899. By WG and A
Penty. Pink mottled brick in English garden-wall bond, with
orange-red brick quoins and dressings; ashlar steps and
buttress bases; stone coped gable ends with brick kneelers,
and brick end stacks to tiled roof.
STYLE: Arts and Crafts.
EXTERIOR: 1-storey 3-bay front, with battered angle and
intermediate buttresses. In centre, paired doors with
small-pane glazed lights, beneath flat arches of gauged brick
with ashlar keyblocks. To left and right, 4-light canted bay
windows with small-pane casements. Modillion eaves. Right
return: commemorative cartouche set in extruded chimney stack,
with date in low relief. Inscription on either side of
cartouche reads: "THESE ALMSHOUSES WERE ERECTED BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE SIR JOSEPH TERRY".
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SE6021351430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464726
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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