7, ST HELENS SQUARE
7, ST HELENS SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256799
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 7, ST HELENS SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 7, ST HELENS SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256799
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 7, ST HELENS SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, ST HELENS 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:
- 7, ST HELENS 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 60188 51972
Details
YORK
SE6051NW ST HELEN'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/939 (North East side) 24/06/83 No.7
GV II
House and shop. Mid C18, with early C19 alteration; original top storey demolished c1930; further alteration and shopfront of C20. Pink-grey mottled brick in Flemish bond with slate roof and brick stack: timber shopfront. EXTERIOR: 3-storeys; 1-bay front to St Helen's Square, 5-bay front to Stonegate. Shopfront of panelled pilasters, broad fascia incorporating blind boxes, and bold cornice returns on Stonegate front: entrance in centre of Stonegate front. Bevelled glass shop windows are margin-glazed over panelled risers, and have brass sills. First floor to St Helen's Square has tripartite first floor window with 4-:12-:4-pane sashes in segment-arched opening, and 16-pane sash beneath flat arch of gauged brick on second floor, both with painted stone sills. 4-course raised band to second floor: similar band to former third floor now forms parapet with stone coping: both returned on Stonegate front. Stonegate front has four 12-pane sash windows with flat arches, plus one blocked window on first floor. Above 2 similar sashes and a single blind window. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York through the Eyes of the Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-: 88-89; City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 204).
Listing NGR: SE6018851972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464557
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 204
Murray, H, Riddick, S, Green, R, York Through the Eyes of the Artist, (1990), 88-89
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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