Lady Hewleys Almshouses
14, ST SAVIOURGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256696
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Hewleys Almshouses
- Statutory Address:
- 14, ST SAVIOURGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256696
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Hewleys Almshouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, ST SAVIOURGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LADY HEWLEYS ALMSHOUSES, 1, ST SAVIOURGATE
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:
- 14, ST SAVIOURGATE
- Statutory Address:
- LADY HEWLEYS ALMSHOUSES, 1, ST SAVIOURGATE
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 60612 51914
Details
YORK
SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE
1112-1/17/983 (South East side)
14/06/54 No.14
(Formerly Listed as:
ST SAVIOURGATE
No.14
and Lady Hewley's Almshouses
(Nos.1-11 consec & No.8A))
GV II
Includes: Lady Hewley's Almshouses No.1 ST SAVIOURGATE.
Warden's house to almshouses; attached gates, gate piers and
railings forming entrance and south-western boundary to
gardens surrounding the almshouses (qv). 1840, with C20
extension. By JB Pritchett for the Trustees of Lady Hewley's
Charity. House of tooled ashlar on ashlar plinth; slate roof
with moulded stone coping and shaped kneelers. Cast-iron gates
and railings; stone gate piers.
EXTERIOR: house front 2 storeys, 3 bays, centre bay gabled;
1-storey extension to right. Centre bay has board double doors
and 2-light window with pointed 6- on 4-pane hung sashes on
first floor, both in openings with 4-centred heads. Windows on
both floors of flanking bays are mullioned and square-headed
with paired 8-pane sashes, those on ground floor taller. All
openings are double chamfered and have coved hoodmoulds.
Chamfered eaves course.
Left return to St Saviourgate: 2-storey gable wall. Ground
floor window as on main front. First floor opening blocked by
reset tablet recording original foundation of Lady Hewley's
Hospital in Tanner Row in 1700. Below is inscribed stone
recording rebuilding of the Hospital in 1840.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate piers approximately 1.5 metres high,
with domed heads, flank double gates of square section
railings with Tudor flower finials. Railings of similar design
raised on low wall with chamfered coping.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 96).
Listing NGR: SE6061251914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464635
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 96
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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