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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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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.

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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

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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.