YORK ARMS (NUMBERS 24 AND 26)

1, PRECENTORS COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257609
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1968
List Entry Name:: YORK ARMS (NUMBERS 24 AND 26)
Statutory Address:: 1, PRECENTORS COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1257609
Date first listed:: 01-Jul-1968
List Entry Name:: YORK ARMS (NUMBERS 24 AND 26)
Statutory Address 1:: 1, PRECENTORS COURT
Statutory Address 2:: YORK ARMS (NUMBERS 24 AND 26), 24-36, HIGH PETERGATE

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:: 1, PRECENTORS COURT
Statutory Address:: YORK ARMS (NUMBERS 24 AND 26), 24-36, HIGH PETERGATE

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 60206 52185

Details

YORK

SE6052SW HIGH PETERGATE 1112-1/27/466 (North East side) 01/07/68 Nos.24-36 (Even) York Arms (Nos.24 and 26)

GV II

Includes: No.1 PRECENTOR'S COURT. Terrace of 7 houses, originally including a coffee house; now including public house and cafe. 1838, incorporating early C18 house at each end (No.24 High Petergate and No.1 Precentor's Court); coffee house converted to public house c1855; other later alterations, and C20 shopfront to Nos 30 and 32. By JP Pritchett. MATERIALS: orange-grey brick in Flemish bond on painted stone plinth; Precentor's Court front of orange-brown brick in English garden-wall and random bonds. No.24 has pantile roof, No.1 Precentor's Court plain tile roof, slate to remainder; brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and cellars; 9-bay front: No.24 is lower. At left end, No.24 has passage door of 6 sunk panels and front door of 6 fielded panels. No.26 has altered inn front of plain pilasters with imposts, broad fascia and moulded cornice on grooved console terminal brackets: to right is door of 6 flush panels, and small-pane window over riser of 4 raised moulded panels to left. Front to Nos 30 and 32 has sunk-panel pilasters with moulded imposts, plate glass windows with timber sills and glazed door beneath shallow cornice. Front doors to Nos 28, 34 and 36 are of 6 flush panels, all with divided overlights. First and second floor windows are 16-pane sashes except on second floor of No.24 which has two 2x6-pane Yorkshire sashes. All have painted stone sills and slightly cambered brick arches. No.24 has moulded and modillioned cornice: the others a plain moulded cornice. No.1 Precentor's Court: 3 storeys and cellars; 2-bay front. Steps lead to 6 fielded panel door in moulded timber surround beneath dentilled cornice hood and with 1-pane fixed light over. To left is blocked cellar opening with 1-course segmental brick arch: to right, flat cellar opening with grille. Ground floor window is 20-pane sash: first floor has two small inserted windows to left of 12-pane sash; second floor one 16-pane sash. First and second floor sashes have flat arches of orange gauged brick. Dentilled eaves cornice. INTERIOR: of Nos 30 and 32: staircase has close string, slim column-on-vase balusters, turned newels and ramped-up handrail. The York Arms public house was originally the Chapter House Coffee House. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 181-2).

Listing NGR: SE6021552194

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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 181-2

Legal

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