6, Kings Square
6, Kings Square, York, YO1 8BH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257521
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 6, Kings Square
- Statutory Address:
- 6, Kings Square, York, YO1 8BH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257521
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 6, Kings Square
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, Kings Square, York, YO1 8BH
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:
- 6, Kings Square, York, YO1 8BH
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:
- SE6043451951
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 April 2023 to correct the name and address, remove superfluous source details and to reformat the text to current standards.
SE6051NW
1112-1/28/521
YORK
KING'S SQUARE (south west side)
No. 6
(Formerly listed as No 5, previously listed as: KING'S SQUARE, No.6)
24/06/83
GV
II
House. Late C16 origins, rebuilt and extended to rear in mid C18; C20 alterations and shopfront.
MATERIALS: timber-framed core; front rendered and colour-washed with moulded console cornice of timber; rear and right return ground floor orange-red brick in stretcher bond, first floor probably retaining original plastered infilling between exposed studding. Steeply pitched pantile roof with brick stack.
EXTERIOR: three storey two window front. Shopfront framed in panelled pilasters with glazed doors flanking elliptical bowed shop window; broad fascia beneath moulded cornice. Windows on first and second floors are twelve-pane sashes in raised architraves with moulded sills. Rear: three storey, two window gabled wing, largely obscured by adjacent buildings.
INTERIOR: main elements of framing, including posts with jowled heads, visible on first and second floors.
Listing NGR: SE6043451951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463759
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 151
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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