37 AND 38, SHAMBLES

37 AND 38, SHAMBLES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1256643
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
37 AND 38, SHAMBLES
Statutory Address:
37 AND 38, SHAMBLES
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1256643
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
37 AND 38, SHAMBLES
Statutory Address 1:
37 AND 38, SHAMBLES

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
37 AND 38, SHAMBLES

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 60451 51862

Details

YORK

SE6051NW SHAMBLES 1112-1/28/1120 (South West side) 14/06/54 Nos.37 AND 38

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.36, 37 AND 38 SHAMBLES. Pair of houses, now shops and workshops. Late C15; late C17 extension to No.38. Both renovated with some rebuilding c1950. Timber-framed, rendered at front; rear of No.37 of pink-orange brick in English bond, rear of No.38 rendered; extension rebuilt in buff-orange brick in English garden-wall bond. Parallel pantile roofs with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2-storey front, 2-gabled bays; jettied first floor and timber-frame exposed, including crown post trusses in both gables. Through passage at left end, beneath ogee-arched lintel. Shops have glazed and panelled doors with divided overlights: No.37 has 2x8-pane Yorkshire sash window, No.38 4-light fixed window. First floor windows are 2x8-pane Yorkshire sashes. Fluted inverted bell rainwater head to each house. INTERIOR: timber-framing, partly renewed on first floor of No.37, visible throughout building. On ground floor, both rear rooms have fireplaces, that to No.37 in plain surround with cornice shelf; that to No.38 with chamfered timber lintel. First floor front room of No.38 has fireplace in plain surround with shelf on shaped brackets. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 217).



Listing NGR: SE6045151862

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Legacy System number:
464674
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 217

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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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