2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE

2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256712
Date first listed:
06-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
Statutory Address:
2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256712
Date first listed:
06-Nov-1972
List Entry Name:
2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE

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 60306 51869

Details

YORK

SE6051NW ST SAMPSON'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/968 (South West side) 06/11/72 No.2

GV II

House, now part of shop with offices above. Late C18 with later alteration and C20 shopfront. Orange brick in Flemish bond with dressings of orange gauged brick and timber eaves cornice; pantile roof and brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Shopfront continued from No.1 Feasegate (qv) and incorporating upstairs door at right end. All upper floor windows are 1-pane sashes with sills, those on second floor painted, and flat arches of brick. Dentil and modillion eaves cornice with inverted bell rainwater head at right end. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 206).

Listing NGR: SE6030651869

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Legacy System number:
464604
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 206

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 2, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE

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