Lady Hewleys Almshouses Numbers 2-10 (Consecutive) And Number 8A
LADY HEWLEYS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 2-10 (CONSECUTIVE) AND NUMBER 8A, 2-10 AND 8A, ST SAVIOURGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256708
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Hewleys Almshouses Numbers 2-10 (Consecutive) And Number 8A
- Statutory Address:
- LADY HEWLEYS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 2-10 (CONSECUTIVE) AND NUMBER 8A, 2-10 AND 8A, ST SAVIOURGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256708
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Lady Hewleys Almshouses Numbers 2-10 (Consecutive) And Number 8A
- Statutory Address 1:
- LADY HEWLEYS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 2-10 (CONSECUTIVE) AND NUMBER 8A, 2-10 AND 8A, ST SAVIOURGATE
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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:
- LADY HEWLEYS ALMSHOUSES NUMBERS 2-10 (CONSECUTIVE) AND NUMBER 8A, 2-10 AND 8A, 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 60645 51884
Details
YORK
SE6051NE ST SAVIOURGATE 1112-1/17/984 (South East side) 14/06/54 Lady Hewley's Almshouses Nos.2-10 (consec) and No.8A (Formerly Listed as: ST SAVIOURGATE No.14 and Lady Hewley's Almshouses Nos.1-11 (consec) & No.8A)
GV II
Range of ten almshouses. 1840, with C20 modernisation. By JB Pritchett for the Trustees of Lady Hewley's Charity. Tooled ashlar; slate roofs with moulded stone copings and shaped kneelers, and brick stacks: rear of orange-red brick in stretcher bond, raised in red brick. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; 9-window front, flanked by cross-gabled bays. Main front has 3 square-headed doorways with paired board doors in 4-centred openings. 2-light cellar openings beneath iron grilles under ground floor windows. Windows on both floors of main front are square-headed, of 2 mullioned lights with 8-pane sashes, those on ground floor taller. Left cross-wing has doorway on ground floor, and window of 2 pointed lights with 6- on 4-pane hung sashes in 4-centred head on first floor. Right cross-wing has square-headed window of paired 8-pane sashes in 4-centred opening on ground floor: first floor window the same as in left cross-wing. All openings are double chamfered and have coved hoodmoulds. Chamfered eaves course beneath moulded guttering to main front. Left return: 2-storey gable wall. Square-headed 3-light mullion window on ground floor, 4-centred window of 2 pointed lights on first floor. Right return: 2-storey 5-window front. Details as for main front with two doorways and 3 windows on ground floor. INTERIOR: entrance lobbies divided by movable panelled partitions. Kitchen ranges said to survive behind board blocking beneath moulded mantelshelves. First floor rooms retain plain fireplaces, now blocked. No.8A was formerly the Almshouse chapel. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 96).
Listing NGR: SE6064551884
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 464647
- 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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