The Burns Hotel

THE BURNS HOTEL, 23, MARKET STREET, YO1 8SL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257372
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
The Burns Hotel
Statutory Address:
THE BURNS HOTEL, 23, MARKET STREET, YO1 8SL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257372
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
The Burns Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
THE BURNS HOTEL, 23, MARKET STREET, YO1 8SL

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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 BURNS HOTEL, 23, MARKET STREET, YO1 8SL

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 60353 51791

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/11/2016


SE 6051 NW,
1112-1/28/620

YORK,
MARKET STREET (South East side),
No.23, The Burns Hotel

(Formerly listed as: The Hansom Cab Public House)

24.06.83

G.V.

II

Public house. Mid C19 incorporating adjacent house of early
C18, formerly one of a pair with No.21 (q.v.); C20 public house
front.
MATERIALS: early C18 part incised stucco, with coved plaster
eaves. Mid C19 part of pink and grey mottled brick in Flemish
bond at front, English garden wall bond on right return;
timber shop front and boxed eaves, on modillions on right
return. Both builds have slate roofs, C19 part hipped, with
brick stacks.
EXTERIOR: 4-storey, 2-window front to C19 part to left of C18
front of 2 storeys and attic and 2 windows. Entrance in C19
part in inn front of sunk-panel pilasters with imposts and
moulded cornice; half glazed and panelled door with radial
fanlight to left of three round-headed radial glazed sash
windows over panelled risers. Upper floor windows are 12-pane
sashes, diminishing in height on each floor, with painted
stone sills and flat arches of brick. C18 part has 12-pane
sash windows with painted stone sills on ground and first
floors, and gabled dormer with 2x6-pane sliding sash to attic.
INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original plan form
survives on second and third floors.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 158).


Listing NGR: SE6035351791

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Legacy System number:
463948
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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 158

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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