40, MICKLEGATE

40, MICKLEGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257328
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
40, MICKLEGATE
Statutory Address:
40, MICKLEGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257328
Date first listed:
18-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:
40, MICKLEGATE
Statutory Address 1:
40, MICKLEGATE

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
40, MICKLEGATE

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 59985 51650

Details

YORK

SE5951NE MICKLEGATE 1112-1/15/645 (North side) 18/02/91 No.40

GV II

Shop and flats. c1840, with later C19 and C20 alteration and extension. Pink mottled brick in Flemish bond at front; pink and red mottled brick in English garden-wall bond at rear; painted stone and timber dressings. Moulded eaves cornice on heavy grooved brackets to slate roof; left end brick stack. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 2-window front. Pilastered shopfront with dentil cornice on paired scrolled brackets, complete with blind boxes and fittings. First floor windows are 4-pane sashes; those on second floor altered to C20 2-light casements with coloured glass upper lights; attic windows squat 6-pane sashes. First and second floor windows have flat arches. Moulded cornice above shopfront forms sill band to first floor windows; second floor windows have painted stone sills; moulded band beneath attic windows. INTERIOR: open-string cantilevered staircase around oval well, with timber stairs, slender cast-iron stick balusters and moulded swept-up mahogany handrail; moulded dado rail. In rear room, late C19 fireplace and grate, with moulded cornice shelf on shaped brackets. (City of York: RCHME: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 127).

Listing NGR: SE5998251655

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Legacy System number:
463990
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 127

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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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