FRESHNEYS HOTEL

FRESHNEYS HOTEL, 54, LOW PETERGATE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257434
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: FRESHNEYS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: FRESHNEYS HOTEL, 54, LOW PETERGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257434
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: FRESHNEYS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: FRESHNEYS HOTEL, 54, LOW PETERGATE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FRESHNEYS HOTEL, 54, LOW PETERGATE

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 60355 52076

Details

YORK

SE6052SW LOW PETERGATE 1112-1/27/587 (North East side) 14/06/54 No.54 Freshney's Hotel (Formerly Listed as: LOW PETERGATE Nos.73 AND 74 Galtres House)

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Two houses, now hotel. First house early C18, altered and rear wing added in late C18; second house c1785 with C19 wing. Second house built for Thomas Brook, already occupying the first. MATERIALS: orange brick front in Flemish bond on painted stone plinth to both houses; timber doorcases and cornice; slate roof to first house, hipped tiled roof to second one: brick stacks. Wing to first house of orange-brown brick in stretcher bond with tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front to first house to left; 1-window front to later house. Each house has doorcase with narrow pilaster jambs, fluted impost band and flat hood on attenuated grooved brackets: doors are of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath fanlights with glazing bars. Both houses have 1-pane sashes beneath painted full-width fascia board on ground floor. First house has 12-pane sashes on first floor, 4-pane sashes on second floor: later house has 16-pane sash on first floor, squat 6-pane sash on second floor: all have flat arches of gauged brick. All windows have painted stone sills. First house has 3-course raised brick bands to first and second floors. Common dentilled and modillioned eaves cornice with initialled inverted bell rainwater head between houses. Rear: first house has narrow 2-storey staircase window with glazing bars; unequal 15-pane sash on first floor, 16-pane sash on second floor, both with segmental arches. Wing is of 2 storeys, gabled at rear, with 12-pane sash window on first floor. Second house has 16-pane sash on first floor, 12-pane sash on second floor, both with segmental arches. Continuous console cornice to eaves of both houses. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records some late C18 fittings including the first flight of the staircase; the upper flights are early C18 with turned balusters, a close moulded string and heavy handrail. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 187).

Listing NGR: SE6035552079

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Legacy System number:: 463895
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 187

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.