NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS

NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 27, CLIFTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1259218
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 27, CLIFTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1259218
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 27, CLIFTON

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: NUMBER 27 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 27, CLIFTON

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 59588 52693

Details

YORK

SE5952NE CLIFTON 1112-1/7/189 (South West side) 19/08/71 No.27 and attached walls and railings

GV II

House. c1830-40. Yellow brick with painted stone dressings. Slate roof. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade of 2 storeys and 3 bays, with the central bay projecting forwards under a pediment, deep modillioned timber eaves, and a moulded storey band which continues around the porch as a cornice. The windows are glazing bar sashes and have rubbed brick flat arches, except for the central window on the 1st floor which has a painted architrave. The painted single-storey porch projects forwards slightly and has 3 concentric recessed semicircular arches with a moulded impost band. The outer arch has an archivolt and keystone and the tympanum has a blind panel with segmental top. The door has 4 panels. The verges overhang at the eaves and there are chimneys on both gables, in front of and behind the ridge. To the right there is a single-storey one-bay wing with a glazing bar sash. The rear elevation is of 3 bays with a central doorway. The ground-floor windows are tripartite glazing bar sashes with canvas blinds. The 1st floor windows are glazing bar sashes with louvred shutters, sliding horizontally below a timber valance. INTERIOR: the stair hall is in the centre of the front of the building, with the outside door beneath the half-landing of the staircase. This has an open string, turned balusters, and a mahogany handrail. The rear hall is entered through 2 semicircular arches. The 2 rear ground-floor rooms have window shutters, and marble fireplaces with iron grates. The fireplace in the north-west room is now painted. Both rooms have foliated ceiling centrepieces of painted plaster and iron, intended for gas lamps and connected to ventilation ducts. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the garden front wall is of brick with stone and concrete copings and carries iron railings with bulb finials and standards with acorn finials. The wall returns on the right-hand side, where it adjoins the house. Near the right of the front wall there is an iron gate with turned gateposts which have acorn finials. The short left-hand return wall has a similar gate and piers, and terminates against a brick pier which is attached to a stone pier with moulded cap. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 67).

Listing NGR: SE5958852693

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Legacy System number:: 463106
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 67

Legal

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