Christian Science Reading Room
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM, 8, HIGH PETERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257620
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Christian Science Reading Room
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM, 8, HIGH PETERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257620
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Christian Science Reading Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM, 8, HIGH PETERGATE
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:
- CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM, 8, 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 60147 52225
Details
YORK
SE6052SW HIGH PETERGATE 1112-1/27/456 (North East side) 01/07/68 No.8 Christian Science Reading Room
GV II
Formerly known as: No.6 HIGH PETERGATE. House, now reading room. Late C17 with early C14 origins; rear altered and partly rebuilt in early C19; C20 shopfront. Front of painted brick in English garden-wall and stretcher bonds; rear of red-brown brick, part rendered; steeply pitched pantile roof with plain tile verge; brick stacks. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 3-window front. Shopfront framed in plain pilasters beneath plain fascia and minimal cornice: door at right end is glazed and panelled with bordered overlight, recessed between small-pane windows. Remainder of shop window has small-pane glazing with some top-hung lights. First floor windows are 12-pane sashes: attic window a raking dormer with 2-light casement window. Rear: outer wall has length of 3-course raised brick first floor band at left end: behind, rebuilt wall has 2x12-pane Yorkshire sash window on first floor. INTERIOR: first floor middle room has small fireplace with basket grate. In attic, the only virtually complete scissor-brace roof truss in a minor building in York survives between left end and centre bays. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 181).
Listing NGR: SE6014852226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463660
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 181
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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