1, KINGS SQUARE, 85, 87 AND 89, GOODRAMGATE

1, KINGS SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257715
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
1, KINGS SQUARE, 85, 87 AND 89, GOODRAMGATE
Statutory Address:
1, KINGS SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257715
Date first listed:
24-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:
1, KINGS SQUARE, 85, 87 AND 89, GOODRAMGATE
Statutory Address 1:
1, KINGS SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:
85, 87 AND 89, GOODRAMGATE

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
1, KINGS SQUARE
Statutory Address:
85, 87 AND 89, GOODRAMGATE

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 60448 51977

Details

YORK

SE6051NW GOODRAMGATE
1112-1/28/423 (South East side)
24/06/83 Nos.85, 87 AND 89

GV II

Includes: No.1 KING'S SQUARE.
Houses with shops; now shop and offices. Early C19, extended
in mid C19; C20 shopfront. Orange-brown brick in Flemish and
English garden-wall bonds; timber guttering and cornice; slate
roofs with brick stack. Shopfront with round arcaded windows
and glazed doors extends through both fronts.
EXTERIOR: Goodramgate has 4-storey 2-window front to corner
block and 3-storey 3-window range to left: King's Square has
3-window front to corner block and 4-storey 2-window extension
to right. Corner block has 12-pane sashes on first and second
floors of both fronts, those on first floor taller; on third
floor, unequal 9-pane sashes; all have painted stone sills and
flat arches of orange gauged brick. Extension to King's Square
repeats fenestration with arches of common brick. Both parts
have prominent moulded cornice on paired modillions with
fluted bowl rainwater head at left end of Goodramgate front.
3-storey range on Goodramgate has two 16-pane sashes on both
upper floors, and 12-pane sash to right, all with painted
stone sills and cambered arches of orange brick; guttering is
on paired modillions.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 141).

Listing NGR: SE6044851977

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
463526
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 141

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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