Judges Court and Attached Front Steps and Railings

JUDGES COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, CONEY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1257937
Date first listed:
19-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
Judges Court and Attached Front Steps and Railings
Statutory Address:
JUDGES COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, CONEY STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1257937
Date first listed:
19-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
Judges Court and Attached Front Steps and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
JUDGES COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, CONEY STREET

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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.

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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:
JUDGES COURT AND ATTACHED FRONT STEPS AND RAILINGS, CONEY 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 60234 51843

Details

YORK

SE6051NW CONEY STREET 1112-1/28/272 (North East side) 19/08/71 Judges' Court and attached front steps and railings (Formerly Listed as: CONEY STREET Judge's Court to rear of Nos 28 and 30)

GV II*

Formerly known as: House in Judges Court occupied by offices of....and Lee CONEY STREET. House with front steps and railings, now offices. Early C18 with earlier origins; later C18 and C19 alterations. MATERIALS: front and both returns of incised stucco, rear of painted Flemish bond brick; painted and rendered chamfered plinth, and chamfered quoins and dressings of painted stone: timber boxed gutters on paired block brackets. Brick stacks on double span slate roof, gabled at right side behind flat parapet, and hipped at left. Stone steps with cast-iron railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, basement and attics; 3-bay front, 2 further bays to right masked by abutting rear wing of Nos 28 and 30 (not included). Basement windows in chamfered plinth are squat 8-pane sashes on each side of front steps. Steps lead to central front door of 6 raised and fielded panels with radial fanlight, in keyed and fasciated round arch on plain pilasters with moulded imposts. Flanking windows are 12-pane sashes with sills. First floor windows are 4-pane sashes with sills; gabled dormer with 2-light casement window to attic. Raised first floor band, returned on left side. Front steps with stepped-up flat handrail on square section railings, wreathed at foot around turned standard on shaped curtail step. Rear: basement and 2 storeys; 5 windows. Spiral stair to left of centre leads down to basement door. Two windows are blocked, the rest various sashes with painted sills and vestigial brick arches. Right return: basement, 2 storeys and attics; irregular fenestration. 12-pane sash windows flank inserted window on ground floor: on first floor, 4-pane sashes flank inserted 9-pane fixed light: left attic has 2x6-pane window, right one 9-pane fixed light. Fragment of 1-course brick string at ground floor impost level. INTERIOR: cellars are brick-vaulted. Ground floor: rooms to right have bolection moulded doorcases. Both rooms are panelled: rear room has fine chimneypiece with fireplace of columns, triglyph frieze and cornice shelf; overmantel of panelled pilasters. Main staircase to first floor has close string, turned balusters and square newels with moulded

ramped-up handrail and panelled dado to stairwell. Lower flights of secondary staircase renewed: upper flights have turned bulbous balusters and splat balusters to attic. Other rooms on upper floors have bolection moulded fireplaces. At rear left of first and attic floors, timber-framed partition walls are exposed. Roof constructed of re-used timbers. From mid C18 to 1806, the house was used as Lodgings for Assize Judges. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 123).

Listing NGR: SE6023451843

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Legacy System number:
463288
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 123

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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