2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256904
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
- Statutory Address:
- 2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1256904
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
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:
- 2, 3, 4, AND 4A, PRECENTORS COURT
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 60200 52203
Details
YORK
SE6052SW PRECENTOR'S COURT 1112-1/27/873 (South side) 14/06/54 Nos.2, 3, 4 AND 4A
GV II*
Row of four houses. Early C18 with later fenestration. MATERIALS: red brick in random bond, on high chamfered brick plinth; moulded timber eaves band: tiled roof has half-hipped dormers with 2-light casement windows and brick stacks, one partly rendered, one rebuilt but reproducing the original diagonal stack. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, semi-basement and attics; 13-bay front. Semi-basement windows with timber lintels in plinth, most either with iron grilles, one retaining wooden shutter. Nos 2 and 3 have doors of 3 bolection moulded panels; door to passage giving access to Nos 4 and 4A is of 3 moulded panels. All are approached by stone steps and those to No.3 and to passage have 2-pane overlights. No.2 has 16-pane sash window to left of door, 12-pane sashes to right and on first floor, inserted unequal 6-pane sash at right of ground floor. Remaining windows are mullioned and transomed casements: No.3 has two pairs of 2x6-pane windows on ground floor, and three 2x3-pane windows in original frames on first floor; No.4 has two cross windows with square leaded lights in original frames on both floors; No.4A has two 2x6-pane ground floor windows, three 2x3-pane first floor windows. All windows had flat arches of gauged brick, those on ground floor now rendered. Ground floor windows are shuttered, those to Nos 2 and 3 flush panelled, those to Nos 4 and 4A of 2 sunk panels. First floor windows have brick sills. 3-course stepped brick band to first floor. INTERIORS: not inspected. RCHM records original staircase to each house, those to Nos 2 & 3 with bulbous balusters, those to Nos 4 & 4A with splat balusters. Original doors and doorcases, plus original fireplaces with late C18 cast-iron grates. No.4 has a ground floor bolection moulded panelled room with dado and hidden cupboards on one wall. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 199).
Listing NGR: SE6020952197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 199
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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