The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers
THE LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, MUSEUM GARDENS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257098
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- THE LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, MUSEUM GARDENS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257098
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- The Lodge and Attached Gates and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, MUSEUM GARDENS
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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:
- THE LODGE AND ATTACHED GATES AND GATE PIERS, MUSEUM GARDENS
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 60025 52018
Details
YORK
SE6052SW MUSEUM GARDENS 1112-1/27/782 The Lodge and attached gates and 02/11/72 gate piers (Formerly Listed as: MUSEUM STREET Lodge and gates)
GV II
Lodge; attached gates and gate piers. Lodge 1874, gates and gate piers 1879. By George Fowler Jones for The Yorkshire Philosophical Society; gates probably manufactured by the Walker Foundry. MATERIALS: lodge of ashlar; plain tile roofs, half conical over machicolated eaves to street front and with wrought-iron finial, partly hidden elsewhere by embattled parapets; corniced ashlar stack with offsets. Gate piers of ashlar, gates of cast and wrought-iron. EXTERIOR: entrance front: 2-storey block with 1-storey porch beneath crow stepped gable; 2-stage embattled circular tower to right. Door in porch is glazed and panelled with overlight in chamfered stopped opening with 2-centred head: above is stilted arched hoodmould on foliate stops; in gable apex monogrammed shield bearing defaced date 18.. and initials YPS entwined. Porch left return has shield of Royal Arms bearing Plantagenet lions beneath pointed hoodmould with headstop at right. Front to Museum Street: 2-storey 2-window bowed front to right of 2-storey parallel range with corbelled extruded stack in re-entrant. On ground floor are three shoulder-headed windows, on first floor two square-headed windows, all 1-pane sashes in chamfered openings. Moulded first floor string, extended over stack. Garden front: 2 storeys and attic, crow-stepped gable wall. 4-pane sash windows on ground and first floors, slit light in gable end, all in chamfered openings. First floor string course. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: gate piers are square on plan, approximately 3.0 metres high, inner and outer faces supported by gabled dwarf buttresses beneath panels carved with pendent armorial shields. Shallow pyramidal caps surmounted by reconstructed gas lamps. Paired carriage gates are flanked by pedestrian gates, of square section bars and rails with rosettes at the heads. (Murray H: Heraldry and the Buildings of York: York: 1985-: 58).
Listing NGR: SE6049052070
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464223
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Murray, H, Heraldry and the Buildings of York, (1985), 58
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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