PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE

PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE, KNAVESMIRE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257533
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1995
List Entry Name:: PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE
Statutory Address:: PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE, KNAVESMIRE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257533
Date first listed:: 11-Jan-1995
List Entry Name:: PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE
Statutory Address 1:: PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE, KNAVESMIRE

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:: PRESS STAND AT YORK RACECOURSE, KNAVESMIRE

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 59651 49831

Details

YORK

SE54NE KNAVESMIRE 1112-1/3/526 Press Stand at York Racecourse 11/01/95

GV II

Racecourse stand, now press stand. c1890 with later alterations. Rear of orange brick in English garden wall bond banded in white brick and with stone copings: at front, cast-iron columns on stone pedestals support shallow hipped slate roof on shaped timber brackets which has cast-iron guttering and terracotta finials. EXTERIOR: 2-tiered front of 4 bays defined by columns with foliate capitals on high pedestals. Lower tier is terraced. Upper level is partitioned off with glazed and boarded screen incorporating glazed and flush panelled doors, one sliding. Rear: 3 storeys 5 bays, bays defined by pilasters with openings set between them in recessed vertical panels. Ground floor altered for tote windows. First floor has four 4-pane sash windows with stone sills and stone keyed flat arches of rubbed brick: fifth window at right end altered. Second floor windows are 1-pane lights with stone sills and top hung shutters. Bands of cogged brick over ground floor openings and at eaves level. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE5965149831

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Legacy System number:: 463771
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.