55, LOW PETERGATE
55, LOW PETERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1257435
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 55, LOW PETERGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 55, LOW PETERGATE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/04207/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1257435
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 55, LOW PETERGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, LOW PETERGATE
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:
- 55, 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 60333 52066
Details
YORK
SE6052SW LOW PETERGATE 1112-1/27/588 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.55
GV II*
Formerly known as: No.38 LOW PETERGATE. House, now shop. Early C17, refronted mid C18; altered C19 shopfront; renovated c1990. Timber-framed, refaced in orange-grey brick in Flemish bond, rendered at rear; dentilled modillioned moulded timber cornice; pantile roof with rendered brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey 3-bay front. Shopfront framed in sunk-panel pilasters with paterae at their heads, panelled fascia and cornice: plate glass window over sunk-panel riser flanked by 6-panel doors, raised and fielded at left end, moulded at right end. First and second floor windows are 12-pane sashes with painted stone sill bands. Third floor windows are squat 6-pane sashes with painted stone sills, outer ones blind, flanking original attic window in gable end. All windows have flat arches of orange gauged brick. Rear: gabled wing at rear of front block has external stack supporting bank of 4 diagonally set chimney flues. Windows are C20 replacements except for one 2x6-pane Yorkshire sash in attic. Front block has cogged brick eaves course. INTERIOR: ground floor: massive panelled beams exposed in front room. Fine staircase with close string, heavy bulbous balusters and moulded handrail, and panelled newels with shaped finials rises through full height of house. First floor: partition wall with studs of flimsy scantling to front room. Front room has dentilled modillion cornice. Original C19 lettered shop window preserved on display on first floor landing. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 194).
Listing NGR: SE6033352066
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463898
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 194
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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