Numbers 15, 16 and 17 and Attached Walls and Railings

NUMBERS 15, 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, ST PAULS SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256742
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Numbers 15, 16 and 17 and Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 15, 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, ST PAULS SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1256742
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Numbers 15, 16 and 17 and Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 15, 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, ST PAULS SQUARE

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 15, 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, ST PAULS 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 59123 51396

Details

YORK

SE5951SW ST PAUL'S SQUARE 1112-1/19/957 (North East side) 24/06/83 Nos.15, 16 AND 17 and attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: ST PAUL'S SQUARE Nos.15-25 (Consecutive))

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Terrace of 3 houses. Mid C19. Brick with painted stone dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and cellars. Each house 2 bays. Sashes throughout, those to Nos 15 and 17, 4-pane with glazing bars, those to No.16, 2-pane. Each house has a canted bay window on the ground floor, with a modillion cornice and with a brick base which has a casement cellar window. The 1st floor windows have a sill band. No.17 has an attic dormer. Nos 16 and 17 have doorways in their right-hand bays, with pilaster doorcases which have modillioned cornices, 4-panel doors, and overlights. The overlight to No.17 has margin panes. The gutter is carried on rectangular timber brackets. Chimneys at left, and between houses in front of ridge. The right-hand return wall of No.15 has 4 bays and is treated similarly. In its 3rd bay it has a single-storey canted bay window with modillioned cornice, and in its 2nd bay a doorcase and 4-panel door similar to those to Nos 16 and 17. The attic is lit by a shallow flat-roofed C20 dormer. Chimney to right. INTERIORS: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the garden front wall is of brick with stone and artificial stone copings. The wall to No.15 carries iron railings with cast finials and terminates at the east end against an iron gate with cast-iron gateposts. No.16 has a similar gate, and restored railings. No.17 has a low iron gate and gateposts, and a wall and coping without railings which returns at the north-west end to form the division between the gardens of Nos 17 and 18.

Listing NGR: SE5912351396

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Legacy System number:
464588
Legacy System:
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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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