Numbers 2 and 4 and Railings Attached to Front and Left Side
NUMBERS 2 AND 4 AND RAILINGS ATTACHED TO FRONT AND LEFT SIDE, 2 AND 4, MUSEUM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257108
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 4 and Railings Attached to Front and Left Side
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 4 AND RAILINGS ATTACHED TO FRONT AND LEFT SIDE, 2 AND 4, MUSEUM STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257108
- Date first listed:
- 03-Aug-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 4 and Railings Attached to Front and Left Side
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 2 AND 4 AND RAILINGS ATTACHED TO FRONT AND LEFT SIDE, 2 AND 4, MUSEUM 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 2 AND 4 AND RAILINGS ATTACHED TO FRONT AND LEFT SIDE, 2 AND 4, MUSEUM 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 60091 52077
Details
YORK
SE6052SW MUSEUM STREET 1112-1/27/786 (North West side) 03/08/92 Nos.2 AND 4 and railings attached to front and left side
GV II
Two houses with front area railings; now offices. 1851. By JB and W Atkinson for Thos. Laycock, M.D. Buff-orange brick in Flemish bond with porticos and dressings of sandstone ashlar; brick stacks to flat roof, obscured by wrought-iron balustrade. Cast-iron railings on stone plinth. EXTERIOR: Museum Street front: 3 bays of 4 storeys and basement, fourth bay of 3 storeys. Basement sash windows have shaped lintels continued as moulded plinth band. Entrance to No.2 in right end bay, within porch of plain antae and heavy cornice. No.4 has distyle in antis portico, rising into first floor as square bay window with clasping pilasters, entablature and moulded cornice returned at each end. Portico has single round-headed light to returns on each floor. First floor bay has single tall 8-pane window in sunk-panelled surround opening on to balcony with parapet of incised panels. Both entrances are approached by flights of steps with square section railings and flat handrail, swept round at foot; doors are glazed and panelled, with overlights, in plain architraves. Windows flanking portico project as shallow 2-storey square bays, with paired round-headed 8-pane sashes on ground floor in pilaster and cornice architraves; similar segment-headed windows on first floor. First floor window over entrance to No.2 is 8-pane sash in eared architrave. All second floor windows are segment-headed 12-pane sashes in eared architraves with moulded sills on brackets. All third floor windows are 6-pane sashes with segment-arched heads in plain surrounds. Continuous moulded cornice to ground floor openings; narrow sill band to first floor windows continues across right end bay; moulded sill band to third floor windows continues as plain cornice over right end bay. Dentilled and moulded eaves cornice beneath open scrollwork parapet balustrade between brick piers. Library Square front: 4 storeys, 3 bays, on stepped plinth. Ground and first floors break forward, centre bay projecting further as 2-storey canted bay window. Bay window has single 8-pane sash on each floor. Window detailing repeats that of main front. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings raised on moulded plinth: those on main front are turned with tapered finials; those to Library Square front are square section with shaped finials, and incorporate open scrolled panels topped with cone finials.
Listing NGR: SE6008752073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464233
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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