Song School of St Olaves School
SONG SCHOOL OF ST OLAVES SCHOOL, 29, CLIFTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Song School of St Olaves School
- Statutory Address:
- SONG SCHOOL OF ST OLAVES SCHOOL, 29, CLIFTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259219
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Song School of St Olaves School
- Statutory Address 1:
- SONG SCHOOL OF ST OLAVES SCHOOL, 29, CLIFTON
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:
- SONG SCHOOL OF ST OLAVES SCHOOL, 29, 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 59575 52708
Details
YORK
SE5952NE CLIFTON 1112-1/7/191 (South West side) 24/06/83 No.29 Song School of St Olave's School
GV II
House, now school. c1835 with later alterations. Yellow brick with painted stone dressings. Slate roof. EXTERIOR: Facade symmetrical, of 2 storeys. The 2 outer bays project forwards as straight-sided 2-storey gabled bay windows, each with paired sashes without glazing bars on each floor. The 1st floor window of the recessed centre is sashed. The porch is of painted stucco and projects forwards slightly. It has pilasters without capitals, a plain frieze, and a cornice which continues as a storey band. The doorway has a semicircular head with keystone, moulded impost blocks, and a plain overlight. The door has 4 panels. The overhanging timber eaves are modillioned. Gable chimneys. At the left there is a single-storey wing which is blank except for a blind recess. Its left-hand gable has a tall tapering rectangular chimney cap. INTERIOR: not inspected. (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: SE5957552708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463107
- 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.
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