The Moat Hotel
THE MOAT HOTEL, NUNNERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257034
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- THE MOAT HOTEL, NUNNERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257034
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Moat Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MOAT HOTEL, NUNNERY LANE
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:
- THE MOAT HOTEL, NUNNERY LANE
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 59990 51279
Details
YORK
SE5951SE NUNNERY LANE 1112-1/20/813 (North East side) The Moat Hotel
GV II
St Thomas Hospital, now hotel. Dated 1862. Yellow brick with some stone and painted stone dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: symmetrical, of 2 storeys and 5 bays, with the outer and central bays projecting forwards slightly under shaped gables with copings and ball finials. The windows have chamfered painted lintels sills and mullions, and the lights are sashed with 4 over 4 panes. The outer bays have 2-light windows, and narrow chamfered slit openings in the gables. The 2nd and 4th bays have 3-light windows. The central bay has a 2-light window above a porch, and a plaque within the gable which is inscribed: 'St THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. RE-BUILT A.D. 1862'. The open porch has sides of chamfered brick with painted stone bases, and caps treated as moulded brackets carrying a segmental brick arch with keystone. The porch roof is hipped and slated. The door has 4 recessed panels, and the plain overlight has a segmental top. Ridge chimneys between 1st and 2nd and 4th and 5th bays. The left-hand and right-hand return walls are treated in a similar manner. Each is of 3 bays and has 3-light windows to the outer bays, and a narrow central bay with a shaped gable and 2-light windows. The left-hand return wall has a doorway in its central bay. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York through the Eyes of the Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-: 30).
Listing NGR: SE5999051279
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464288
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Murray, H, Riddick, S, Green, R, York Through the Eyes of the Artist, (1990), 30
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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