15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257813
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257813
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
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:
- 15 AND 16, FOSSGATE
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 60550 51779
Details
YORK
SE6051NE FOSSGATE 1112-1/17/336 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.15 AND 16
GV II
Formerly known as: No.13 FOSSGATE. House, now shop. c1600 with late C17 alteration and rear wing; late C19 shopfront, and C20 alteration. Original building timber-framed with white-washed plaster front; timber door hood, shopfront and guttering; brick wing; tiled roofs to both parts, with brick stack at right end of front roof. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front, upper storeys jettied. Shopfront of grooved pilasters with moulded imposts on tall faceted pedestals and deep projecting fascia between grooved and gableted consoles. Glazed and panelled door with shaped lintel carved with initials MD flanked by plate glass windows between colonnette jambs with moulded capitals and carved spandrels, over raised panel risers. Passage entrance with panelled door at left end, under ribbed shell hood with lion mask boss on shaped brackets. Tripartite bow windows on first floor with 16-pane centre sash; 3-light 8-pane casement windows on second floor. INTERIOR: on ground floor of front building some wall studding, ceiling beams and joists are exposed: rebuilt brick fireplace may obscure earlier one. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 132).
Listing NGR: SE6055051779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 132
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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