Numbers 31 and 33 and Attached Front Gates and Railings
NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED FRONT GATES AND RAILINGS, 31 AND 33, PRIORY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256881
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 31 and 33 and Attached Front Gates and Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED FRONT GATES AND RAILINGS, 31 AND 33, PRIORY STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/03731/02
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256881
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 31 and 33 and Attached Front Gates and Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED FRONT GATES AND RAILINGS, 31 AND 33, PRIORY STREET
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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.
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:
- NUMBERS 31 AND 33 AND ATTACHED FRONT GATES AND RAILINGS, 31 AND 33, PRIORY STREET
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 59948 51445
Details
YORK
SE5951SE PRIORY STREET 1112-1/20/884 (North East side) 29/03/88 Nos.31 AND 33 and attached front gates and railings
GV II
Pair of houses with railings attached to front. c1855, with later C19 alteration. By GT Andrews. Pink-cream mottled brick, in Flemish bond at front, rendered on right side; painted stone sill bands; timber doorcases and modillion eaves cornice; slate roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3-storey front with two windows to each house. Doorcases of sunk-panel pilasters and cornice hoods on foliate consoles over friezes with paterae, have 6-panel doors and semicircular fanlights in round-arched architraves with moulded imposts and moulded transoms. To right of each door, 3-light canted bay window with 4-pane centre sash. On first floor, windows are 4-pane sashes, on second floor 12-pane sashes, all with cambered brick arches, those to 31 painted. Sill bands on first and second floors. Rear: 2-storey projecting wings with pent roofs. Windows to rear of front range are 12-pane sashes. INTERIOR: No.33 has 4-panel pine doors. In ground floor front room, a crinoidal limestone fireplace with cast-iron firebasket. Staircase has turned bobbin balustrade. On first floor, front room has cast-iron firebasket in marble surround; moulded ceiling cornices. No.31 not fully inspected: decorative-tiled hall floor, staircase similar to No.33 but with newel post. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: front railings and standards on low stone plinth are turned, with flower-bud tips. Nos 31 and 33 are shown on Nathaniel Whittock's 'Bird's-eye View of the City of York in the 1850s', and probably formed part of GT Andrews' planned scheme for the newly opened-up Priory Gardens, formerly the grounds of Holy Trinity Priory (qv). (Murray H: Nathaniel Whittock's Bird's-eye View of the City of York in 1850: York: 1988-: 38).
Listing NGR: SE5994651449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Murray, H, Nathaniel Whittocks Birds Eye View of the City of York in 1850, (1988), 38
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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