26, COPPERGATE
26, COPPERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1257900
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 26, COPPERGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 26, COPPERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1257900
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1997
- List Entry Name:
- 26, COPPERGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 26, COPPERGATE
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:
- 26, COPPERGATE
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 60443 51715
Details
YORK
SE6051NW COPPERGATE 1112-1/28/275 (South East side) 14/06/54 No.26 (Formerly Listed as: COPPERGATE No.26 The Market Tavern Public House)
GV II*
House, now restaurant. Late C15; C17 rear wing, extended in C19; C18 and C19 alterations; renovated in late C20. MATERIALS: front range timber-framed, now with brick infilling, plastered and white-washed; timber eaves band, pierced by quatrefoils, and bracketed cornice to steeply-pitched tiled roof. Rear wing of brick, rendered and white-washed, with roofs of slate and pantile. Brick stacks are rebuilt. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 2-bay front range, first and second floors jettied; 2-storey wing with cellar to rear. Renewed glazed door and windows in shopfront of plain pilasters and moulded cornice on carved brackets. First floor windows are 4-pane sashes, on second floor 2-light casements. Ornate console brackets, quatrefoil in section, attached beneath second floor jetty. INTERIOR: lowest flight of spiral staircase survives in cellar beside chimneybreast against right wall: upper flights removed. In front range, posts, braces, transverse and spine beams survive almost intact, including numbered second floor joists, visible on first floor, and studded partition wall without infill on second floor. On first and second floors, original right end wall with studding and plastered infill survives. Front range has fireplace with lintel of tooled stone on ground floor; in wing, wide fireplace with cambered timber lintel, rebated cupboard and chamfered candle shelf. Three small fireplaces all with cambered brick arches on first floor. House was The Market Tavern at least from mid C19 to mid C20. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 128; Brinklow D and Stockwell M: No.26 Coppergate: 1984-).
Listing NGR: SE6044351715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463295
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 128
Brinklow, D, Stockwell, M, Number 26 Coppergate, (1984)
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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