16, FRONT STREET
16, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257793
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 16, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 16, FRONT STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-09-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/05526/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257793
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 16, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16, FRONT STREET
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:
- 16, FRONT STREET
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 57322 51251
Details
YORK
SE5751SW FRONT STREET, Acomb 1112-1/18/1191 (South side) 20/09/74 No.16
GV II
House. c1500 with C16 extension to left; encased in brick and extended to right c1700; further alteration and extensions in C19 and later; C20 fenestration. MATERIALS: original structure is timber-framed, encased and extended in orange-brown brick in stretcher bond on brick plinth, most now rendered but some exposed at rear of right wing; pantile roof, part hipped, with stone copings, brick stacks and moulded timber guttering at front. Timber porch with tile roof. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 2-bay front with 1-storey 1-bay extension at right and further lean-to extensions at right end. Gabled latticed porch has C20 panelled door at right end of 2-storey front. All front windows are small-paned with top-hung opening lights, that to 1-storey extension slightly bowed. Rear: windows similar to those on main front. Part has 2-course raised brick band at first floor level. Left return: tall external stack with offsets and weathering. INTERIOR: some timber-framing is visible through later wall coverings. End room at right has chamfered and ogee stopped spine beam and exposed joists. Two fireplaces survive, one of marble in left end room on ground floor, the other with cast-iron grate and tiled slips in the middle room in the centre range. Attic door to C18 extension is of 2 panels on plank backing hung on H- and L-hinges. (RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 112).
Listing NGR: SE5732251251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463426
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 112
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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