Jackson House
53, LOW PETERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257663
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Jackson House
- Statutory Address:
- 53, LOW PETERGATE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257663
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Jackson House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, LOW PETERGATE
- Statutory Address 2:
- JACKSON HOUSE, 7, GRAPE LANE
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:
- 53, LOW PETERGATE
- Statutory Address:
- JACKSON HOUSE, 7, GRAPE LANE
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 60329 52042
Details
YORK
SE6052SW GRAPE LANE
1112-1/27/429 (North West side)
19/08/71 No.7
Jackson House
(Formerly Listed as:
LOW PETERGATE
No.53)
GV II
Includes: No.53 LOW PETERGATE.
Printing works. No.7 Grape Lane c1600, raised and incorporated
into No.53 Low Petergate in early C19; refronted in C20. No.53
Low Petergate early C19, partly rebuilt and extended later in
C19. No.7 Grape Lane is timber-framed, fronted in orange-cream
brick in Flemish bond; roof not visible. No.53 Low Petergate
of orange-grey brick in Flemish and English garden-wall bonds,
part rendered; roofs of slate and pantile.
EXTERIOR: No.7 Grape Lane: 3-storey 1-window front. C20
4-panel doors flank bowed small-pane shop window over brick
riser. Left door leads to rear access passage. Oriel window on
first floor and tripartite window on second floor both have
12-pane centre sashes. Second floor window has flat arch of
orange soldier bricks. Prominent moulded timber cornice. Left
return: first floor jetty over side passage now largely boxed
in.
No.53 Low Petergate in former Morley's Yard: 2-storey 4-window
range abuts No.55 Low Petergate (qv): attached taller 2-storey
block at rear of yard. 2-storey range has doorcase of attached
reeded elliptical columns, frieze with shaped fascia panel and
rebated end blocks, and moulded cornice: door is of 6 raised
and fielded panels. To left is round-arched radial-glazed and
panelled door. To right, ground floor windows are one small
4-pane sash, 16-pane sash with cambered brick arch and 15-pane
fixed light. First floor windows are all 12-pane sashes, those
to right with 1-course cambered brick arches. Taller block has
glazed and panelled door with 12-pane overlight in canted
corner, and 12-pane sash window above. Yard front windows are
tripled 12/12-pane pivoting lights on ground floor, and
similar windows with 8/12-pane lights on first floor.
INTERIOR: No.7 Grape Lane has early C18 staircase with turned
balusters and moulded handrail; timber-framed cross wall
exposed in first floor front room. There has been a printing
works on the site of No.53 Low Petergate since mid C18.
No.7 Grape Lane is a new addition to the list.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 146;
194).
Listing NGR: SE6032952042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463560
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 146, 194
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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