St Trinity House
ST TRINITY HOUSE, 3, 4 AND 4A, KINGS SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257520
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- St Trinity House
- Statutory Address:
- ST TRINITY HOUSE, 3, 4 AND 4A, KINGS SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257520
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- St Trinity House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST TRINITY HOUSE, 3, 4 AND 4A, KINGS SQUARE
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:
- ST TRINITY HOUSE, 3, 4 AND 4A, KINGS SQUARE
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 60457 51919
Details
YORK
SE6051NW KING'S SQUARE 1112-1/28/520 (South East side) 14/06/54 Nos.3, 4 AND 4A St Trinity House (Formerly Listed as: SHAMBLES No.1) (Formerly Listed as: COLLIERGATE Nos.1 AND 2)
GV II
Four buildings now combined as offices. C20 remodelling of three C15 or earlier structures, one altered in C17, two rebuilt in early C18; one C20 structure. C15 structures timber-framed; all parts now faced in orange brick in English garden-wall or random bond; first floor of right end building rendered. Pantile roofs. EXTERIOR: 2 storey 1-bay fronts, except 4, which has 3 storeys and attic; first floor of right end building jettied. Windows include small-pane bow and bay windows on ground floor, and 3x12-pane Yorkshire sash in end building. On first floor, 4-pane sashes, 16-pane sash and 3x6-pane casement; 4 has 3-light casements. Right end building originally jettied on adjacent fronts retains dragon post at corner. INTERIOR: vestigial timber-framing survives in all C15 structures. Right end building has dragon beam and joists for jettied first floor, and fireplace with chamfered timber lintel beneath later moulded timber mantelshelf. Adjacent building to left retains chamfered beam and joists for inserted first floor in former hall. Left end building formerly listed with Nos 1 and 2 Colliergate (19/08/71): right end building formerly listed with No.1 The Shambles. Right end building occupies an important position in the streetscape at the corner of The Shambles. (Murray H, Riddick S & Green R: York through the Eyes of the Artist: York City Art Gallery: 1990-: 92; City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 217).
Listing NGR: SE6045751919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463758
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 217
Murray, H, Riddick, S, Green, R, York Through the Eyes of the Artist, (1990), 92
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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