3-20, SOUTH PARADE, 43, BLOSSOM STREET

3-20, SOUTH PARADE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256614
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
3-20, SOUTH PARADE, 43, BLOSSOM STREET
Statutory Address:
3-20, SOUTH PARADE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256614
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
3-20, SOUTH PARADE, 43, BLOSSOM STREET
Statutory Address 1:
3-20, SOUTH PARADE
Statutory Address 2:
43, BLOSSOM STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
3-20, SOUTH PARADE
Statutory Address:
43, BLOSSOM STREET

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 59700 51278

Details

YORK

SE5951SE SOUTH PARADE
1112-1/20/921 (North East side)
14/06/54 Nos.3-20 (Consecutive)

II

Includes: No.43 BLOSSOM STREET.
Terrace of houses, now 17 houses, a shop, and offices. 1825-8
with some C20 alterations. Probably built by Thomas Rayson
senior, bricklayer. Brick in Flemish bond with painted stone
or stucco dressings. Slate roof, hipped at left.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys above cellars. Each house 2 bays with
glazing bar sash windows which have painted rusticated lintels
with false keystones. No.19 has a small flat-roofed attic
dormer. At the left-hand end of the terrace a C20 shopfront
and doorways occupy the ground floor of No.43 Blossom Street
and the former Nos 1 and 2 South Parade (now part of No.43
Blossom Street). The shopfront returns to also occupy the
ground floor of the 3 bays which face Blossom Street. The
remaining houses each have a tripartite bowed glazing bar sash
at the right on the ground floor and a doorway at the left
with a doorcase which has engaged reeded columns, a frieze
with raised mouldings, panelled reveals, a door of 6 panels,
and an overlight with glazing bars in a diagonal pattern. No 4
has French doors to the cellar, and a C20 lean-to porch over
the cellar doorway. No.6 has a glazed window replacing the
cellar door. No.7 has a casement window with glazing bars
lighting the cellar. No.8 has a C20 cellar window and glazed
door. Nos 9, 10 and 11, 15, 16, 17 and 19 have 6-panel cellar
doors. No.14 has a C20 concrete platform in front of the
cellar window. The houses have timber gutters carried on
rectangular brackets except for Nos 4, 5, 6 and 7, which have
plastic gutters. Ridge chimneys to left and right of the
former No.2, and to right of Nos 3-20.
INTERIORS: not inspected.
No.43 Blossom Street was first listed 01/07/68.
(An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:
RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 129).

Listing NGR: SE5965951317

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
464735
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 129

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 3-20, SOUTH PARADE, 43, BLOSSOM STREET

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