6, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
6, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256730
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 6, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 6, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05478/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256730
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 6, ST SAMPSONS SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, 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.
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:
- 6, 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 60318 51920
Details
YORK
SE6051NW ST SAMPSON'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/971 (North West side) 19/08/71 No.6
GV II
House, now part of department store. Mid C18, with later alteration and C20 shopfront. Rendered brick, colour-washed, with timber shopfront and eaves cornice, and slate roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Shopfront incorporates 6-panel passage door at left end. Windows are unequal 15-pane sashes on first floor, and unequal 9-pane sashes on second floor, all in moulded surrounds with narrow sills. Bold modillion eaves cornice with fluted bowl rainwater head at left end. INTERIOR: not accessible. RCHM record an open string staircase with turned balusters, and top flight with re-used balusters c1700; first floor room with fluted architraves and angle roundels; on second floor, a moulded stone fireplace surround. This house was incorporated into the Golden Lyon Inn (No.5 St Sampson's Square, qv). (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 207).
Listing NGR: SE6031851920
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 207
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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