2, FRONT STREET
2, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257830
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257830
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 2, FRONT STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, 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:
- 2, 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 57479 51338
Details
YORK
SE5751SW FRONT STREET, Acomb 1112-1/18/1187 (South side) 14/06/54 No.2
II
House, now shop and office. Late C18 with some C20 alterations. Brick. Slate roof to main building and plain tile to left-hand wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 bays. The facade has a one-course brick band at 1st floor sill level, and a straight joint to the left of the middle bay. The windows are glazing bar sashes. The outer bays have 2-storey canted bay windows. The central window on the 1st floor has a rubbed brick flat arch. The doorcase has thin plain pilasters, and shaped brackets supporting a shallow dentilled cornice. The door has 6 raised and fielded panels, and the overlight is divided into 3 panes. The gutter cornice is dentilled. The gables are coped and have chimneys. Set back to the left is an added 2-storey wing. It has a sash window with 4 over 4 panes on the ground floor, a small casement window towards the right on the 1st floor, and a doorway at the right with a C20 timber doorcase and 6-panel door. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records original staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. 2 original fireplaces on first floor. (RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-: 111).
Listing NGR: SE5747951338
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463421
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 111
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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