Grange House

GRANGE HOUSE, HUNTINGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257550
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
Grange House
Statutory Address:
GRANGE HOUSE, HUNTINGTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257550
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Grange House
Statutory Address 1:
GRANGE HOUSE, HUNTINGTON ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
GRANGE HOUSE, HUNTINGTON ROAD

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 60854 53041

Details

YORK

SE65SW HUNTINGTON ROAD 1112-1/2/511 (West side) 24/06/83 Grange House (Formerly Listed as: HUNTINGTON ROAD Former Administration block of the former Grange Hospital (now St Mary's))

GV II

Workhouse offices; now student flats. 1848-49 with contemporary extension and later bay windows; renovated 1994. Architects JB and W Atkinson. MATERIALS: orange-cream brick in English garden wall and stretcher bonds on brick plinth; bay windows in orange brick with sandstone plinth and dressings. Shallow pitched hipped slate roofs with widely overhanging eaves, on shaped timber brackets in centre front. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 9-bay front, with 2-bay extension at left end. Outer angles are pilastered; original end bays break forward and have canted bay windows on ground floor. In centre of original front is round-arched doorcase of 2 orders with recessed glazed door and semicircular fanlight. Three windows on each side are recessed radial glazed sashes beneath arcaded round arches with stone impost band. Canted bays have three similar sash windows recessed in triple keyed orange brick arches and moulded cornices beneath plain parapets with moulded stone copings. First floor windows are cambered headed 12-pane sashes, centre one in pedimented moulded brick surround with stone sill and brick apron; others have segmental brick arches with stone impost band and sill band. All second floor windows are squat 12-pane sashes with flat brick arches and painted stone sill band broken by pilaster strips. Windows in extension conform with equivalents elsewhere. Rear: 3 storeys, 11 bays, with 1- and 2-storey projections at each end linked by 1-storey glasshouse. Glazed double doors in centre of glasshouse and 4-panel glazed and panelled door at right end: other ground floor openings are sash windows of various types. Projection to right has Venetian staircase sash window on first floor. Otherwise first and second floor windows are 12-pane sashes, those on second floor squat, except where altered or inserted. Windows on first floor have segmental brick arches, on second floor cambered arches. Returns: windows on each floor correspond with those on main front. INTERIOR: staircase known to have close strings, turned bobbin balusters and plain handrail on square newels with ball finials. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments of the City of York:

RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO: 1975-: 51).

Listing NGR: SE6085453041

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Legacy System number:
463745
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Sources

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An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 51

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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