4, 6 AND 8, LOW OUSEGATE

4, 6 AND 8, LOW OUSEGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257445
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
4, 6 AND 8, LOW OUSEGATE
Statutory Address:
4, 6 AND 8, LOW OUSEGATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257445
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
4, 6 AND 8, LOW OUSEGATE
Statutory Address 1:
4, 6 AND 8, 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.

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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:
4, 6 AND 8, 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 60259 51675

Details

YORK

SE6051NW LOW OUSEGATE 1112-1/28/573 (North side) Nos.4, 6 AND 8

GV II

Pair of houses with shops. 1810-20 with C20 shopfronts. Orange-brown brick in Flemish bond with timber cornice; shallow pitched slate roof with truncated brick stack. EXTERIOR: 4-storey 4-bay front. Shopfront to left is framed in plain pilasters with moulded cornice on thin brackets paired at the pilaster heads: doors at each end are glazed and panelled and window is of 3 lights over panelled stall riser. Shopfront to right is of aluminium with plate glazing. All upper floor windows are 1-pane sashes except for two 12-pane sashes on second floor of house to right and two on third floor where original unequal 9-pane sashes have 1-pane replacement lower sashes. All windows have stone sills, some painted, some damaged: all have flat arches of orange rubbed and gauged brick. Moulded eaves cornice incorporates guttering. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 157).

Listing NGR: SE6025151683

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Legacy System number:
463871
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.

Ordnance survey map of 4, 6 AND 8, LOW OUSEGATE

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