The Other Tap and Spile Public House

THE OTHER TAP AND SPILE PUBLIC HOUSE, 15, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257062
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
The Other Tap and Spile Public House
Statutory Address:
THE OTHER TAP AND SPILE PUBLIC HOUSE, 15, NORTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257062
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
The Other Tap and Spile Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE OTHER TAP AND SPILE PUBLIC HOUSE, 15, NORTH 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.

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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:
THE OTHER TAP AND SPILE PUBLIC HOUSE, 15, NORTH 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 60092 51725

Details

YORK

SE6051NW NORTH STREET 1112-1/28/807 (West side) No.15 The Other Tap and Spile Public House

II

Public house. Dated 1896, with some later remodelling. By WG Penty. Red brick in English garden-wall bond, the basement painted; painted stone dressings; stone coped gables to tiled roof. EXTERIOR: basement and 2 storeys, alternate bays with attic; 4 bays, articulated above basement by thin giant pilasters with moulded imposts. Left of centre attic has shaped gable, right end one shaped parapet, both with moulded coping. Entrance in basement of left of centre bay has double doors each of 4 raised and fielded panels beneath flat hood on fluted console brackets. To right, boarded cellar doors. At right end, tall elliptical carriage arch, closed by ramped-up boarded double gates. On ground floor, 3-light window over door, lighting inner stairway, flanked by 3-light mullion and transom windows. Similar window over carriage arch on first floor; others of 2 lights. All windows are small-pane casements, recessed beneath semicircular or segmental relieving arches. On ground floor, pilaster bases continue on each side to form moulded sill band; at first floor moulded impost band forms sill band to first floor windows. In attic, pilaster imposts linked by flat band, inscribed over left of centre bay with date 1896. INTERIOR: not inspected. A public house on the site was known from c1840 to c1980 as The Yorkshire Hussar. (Dissertation for MA in Architectural Building Conservation: Davison Andrew P: "A Good House, fit for the purpose: Public House Design in York": De Montfort University: 1993-: 81).

Listing NGR: SE6008351723

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Legacy System number:
464271
Legacy System:
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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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