1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257443
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257443
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
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:
- 1 AND 1A, LOW OUSEGATE
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 60264 51646
Details
YORK
SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE 1112-1/28/571 (South side) 24/06/83 Nos.1 AND 1A (Formerly Listed as: LOW OUSEGATE No.1)
GV II
House with shop. 1810-20 with later alteration and C20 shopfront; exterior renovated in 1992. Orange-grey brick in Flemish bond with window arches of orange gauged brick; river front on limestone plinth. Timber mutule eaves cornice, returned on right front to slate hipped roof with brick stacks. EXTERIOR: Low Ousegate front 3 storeys, 3 windows. At left end are paired doorcases of shaped-panel pilasters and bracketed console cornices, consoles and brackets carved as acanthus leaves: doors of 6 raised and fielded panels beneath tall overlights approached by stone steps. Shopfront to right, returned on river front. First floor windows are 12-pane sashes, those on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all with stone sills and flat arches of brick. At right end of cornice, a fluted bowl rainwater head. River front of 3 storeys and basement on chamfered plinth; 5 windows. Plinth has paired plank doors beneath heavy tooled lintel to right of centre, and further right a blocked opening with shaped lintel. Basement has four 16-pane sashes. In centre of upper floors are 2 tall round-headed staircase windows with brick archivolts, each breaking through 2 storeys. Flanking windows on ground and first floors are 12-pane sashes, and on second floor unequal 9-pane sashes, all with flat arches. All windows have stone sills. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157).
Listing NGR: SE6026451643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 157
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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