5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257518
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
- Statutory Address:
- 5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257518
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
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:
- 5 AND 6, KINGS COURT
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 60432 51923
Details
YORK
SE6051NW KING'S COURT 1112-1/28/519 (North West side) 14/06/54 Nos.5 AND 6
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos 5 and 6 and No.5 PUMP COURT KING'S COURT. House, now offices. Rear ranges C16, front block mid C18, rebuilt and restored 1951. Front of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond, with timber eaves cornice; pantile roofs with brick stack. Rear ranges timber-framed, ground and first floors now encased in pink mottled brick in stretcher bond, second floor infilling rendered. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 5-bay front. Central 6-panel door with radial fanlight in pilastered round-arched architrave recessed in panelled reveals of Doric doorcase of attached columns, triglyph frieze blocks, dentilled cornice and open pediment. All windows are 12-pane sashes with narrow stone sills and flat arches of brick. 3-course raised brick second floor band. Dentilled eaves frieze beneath moulded modillion cornice. Elaborate rainwater heads to left, dated 1951, initialled YC, and to right, dated 1755, initialled HR: square section rainwater goods on rosette clamps. Left return: 3 storeys 6 bays, with moulded bressumers to first and second floor jetties. Towards right end, glazed and panelled door to left of cantilevered bay window with small-pane glazing; towards left end panelled door to right of unequal 6-pane sash window. Other windows are 2x9-pane horizontal sliding sashes. Windows on first floor are paired 12-pane sashes with 8-pane sash at left end; on second floor, 1-, 2- and 3-light 6-pane casements. Minimal framing exposed on ground and first floors. INTERIOR: stone-walled cellar retains squat posts with massive jowled heads raised on lime-washed quatrefoil column drums on square bases, and chamfered axial and transverse beams. Substantial remains of framing survive on upper floors of rear range bays adjacent to front block. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 150).
Listing NGR: SE6043251923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463756
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 150
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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