30, PAVEMENT, 55 AND 56, FOSSGATE

30, PAVEMENT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257826
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
30, PAVEMENT, 55 AND 56, FOSSGATE
Statutory Address:
30, PAVEMENT
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1257826
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
30, PAVEMENT, 55 AND 56, FOSSGATE
Statutory Address 1:
30, PAVEMENT
Statutory Address 2:
55 AND 56, 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.

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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:
30, PAVEMENT
Statutory Address:
55 AND 56, 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 60517 51806

Details

YORK

SE6051NE FOSSGATE
1112-1/17/347 (South West side)
14/06/54 Nos.55 AND 56

GV II

Includes: No.30 PAVEMENT.
Row of three houses, now one shop. c1796: shopfronts are late
C19 to No..30 Pavement, c1955 to Nos 55 and 56 Fossgate.
MATERIALS: buff-grey brick in Flemish bond with dressings of
orange rubbed brick; dentil and modillion cornice of timber;
truncated brick stacks to hipped slate roof. C20 shopfront of
teak, stainless steel and granite veneer.
EXTERIOR: 3-storey 6-bay front. Shopfront to Nos 55 and 56
Fossgate continuous with No.54 (qv) with plate glass windows
and doors of bevelled glass with overlights. Shopfront to
No.30 Pavement framed in fluted pilasters with moulded imposts
on panelled pedestals, beneath coved frieze and moulded
cornice with dentilled capping interrupted by carved grooved
brackets surmounted by segmental gablets. Panelled double
doors of bevelled glass, curved to corner, flanked by plate
glass windows over granite veneer risers. First floor windows
are tall 12-pane sashes, on second floor unequal 9-pane
sashes: outer windows tripartite on both floors. Dated
rainwater head initialled TW at left end of eaves cornice.
Pavement front: 3 storeys, 1 window. First floor window is
16-pane sash, second floor unequal 12-pane sash. All windows
have painted stone sills and flat arches.
INTERIOR: of shop: early C20 shop fittings.
No.30 Pavement was first listed 01/07/68.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 134).

Listing NGR: SE6051751806

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
463417
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 134

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 30, PAVEMENT, 55 AND 56, FOSSGATE

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