Minster Song School (Part)
MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 10, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257261
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Minster Song School (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 10, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257261
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Minster Song School (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 10, MINSTER YARD
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:
- MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 10, MINSTER YARD
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 60324 52115
Details
YORK
SE6052SW MINSTER YARD 1112-1/27/713 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.10 Minster Song School (part)
GV II
House, now part of school. c1755; altered and re-roofed in early C19. For Dean John Fountayne. Orange-brown brick in Flemish bond on chamfered stone plinth with timber doorcase and cornice; slate roof, part hipped, with 10/10-pane sash window in flat dormer towards Minster Gates and brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3-storey, 4-window front, right half projecting. Cellar openings in plinth. Left half has doorcase of slender engaged fluted columns, fluted frieze and angle rosettes, and door of 6 raised and fielded panels with squat 8-pane overlight. 12-pane sash window above door, and two similar on ground and first floors of right half. All second floor windows are squat 6-pane sashes. Other windows are inserted tall 8-pane sashes in left half. All original windows have flat arches of orange rubbed brick and no sills: ground floor windows have panelled shutters. 4-course raised brick bands to first and second floors and prominent moulded eaves cornice, all continued across right return. Rainwater goods on rosette clamps, with moulded and enriched hopper with Fountayne elephant crest, inscribed JF, dated 1763. INTERIOR: cellar retains brick arched fireplace. Quarter-turn staircase from ground to second floor has open string, turned heavy balusters and newels, and moulded and ramped-up handrail: attic staircase has close string, column balusters, turned newels and ramped up flat handrail. Ground floor room panelled above dado rail: enriched fireplace surround with moulded mantelshelf and eared overmantel panel. First floor front room has fireplace with reeded jambs and frieze, and rosette paterae. Rear room has painted fireplace with pulvinated moulded shelf. Second floor front room has fireplace with basket grate in plain surround with moulded shelf. Most rooms have moulded cornices. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 165).
Listing NGR: SE6032552115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464091
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 165
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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