Purey Cust Lodge, Attached Walls and Gateways
PUREY CUST LODGE, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAYS, DEANS PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257883
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Purey Cust Lodge, Attached Walls and Gateways
- Statutory Address:
- PUREY CUST LODGE, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAYS, DEANS PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257883
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Purey Cust Lodge, Attached Walls and Gateways
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUREY CUST LODGE, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAYS, DEANS PARK
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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:
- PUREY CUST LODGE, ATTACHED WALLS AND GATEWAYS, DEANS PARK
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 60227 52212
Details
YORK
SE6052SW DEAN'S PARK 1112-1/27/880 Purey Cust Lodge, attached walls and 24/06/83 gateways (Formerly Listed as: DEAN'S PARK The Lodge)
GV II
Lodge, walls and gateways to the Minster Stoneyard; now entrance and boundary walls to garden of the Purey Cust Chambers (qv). 1845, adopted as garden walls c1916. MATERIALS: lodge of orange-brown and orange-grey brick in various bonds and magnesian limestone ashlar: pent pantile roof has brick stacks. Walls largely of coursed squared magnesian limestone, part to Precentor's Court rendered and incised, part on inside of orange brick in English garden-wall bond: copings are moulded stone or pantile. EXTERIOR: wall is approximately 6 metres high, stepped up to approximately 8.5 metres at rear of Lodge, stepped down to approximately 4.5 metres along Precentor's Court. Wall incorporates three gateways in double chamfered 4-centred arches with coved hoodmoulds, two closed by nail studded boarded gates; third giving access to the hospital is open and flanked by shields of arms of St Peter and the Deanery of York. Lodge entrance is nail studded boarded door in shouldered arch to right of hospital gateway. Further right, windows at two levels are of single or paired square-headed lights with diamond lattice glazing, all in chamfered openings. Garden side: Lodge is of 2 low storeys. Ground floor windows are various, including 1- and 2-light small- and large-pane casements, one 2x6-pane Yorkshire sash and one 2x2-pane Yorkshire sash; on first floor are three 2x2-pane Yorkshire sashes. INTERIOR: not inspected. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 129).
Listing NGR: SE6022752212
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463321
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 129
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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