St Olaves House (St Olaves School)
ST OLAVES HOUSE (ST OLAVES SCHOOL), CLIFTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259233
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St Olaves House (St Olaves School)
- Statutory Address:
- ST OLAVES HOUSE (ST OLAVES SCHOOL), CLIFTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259233
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- St Olaves House (St Olaves School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST OLAVES HOUSE (ST OLAVES SCHOOL), 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:
- ST OLAVES HOUSE (ST OLAVES SCHOOL), 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 59479 52703
Details
YORK
SE5952NW CLIFTON 1112-1/6/204 (West side (off)) 24/06/83 St Olave's House (St Olave's School)
II
House, now school. 1813. For David Russell, solicitor, altered C20. Stucco with hipped concrete tile roofs. EXTERIOR: main block symmetrical, of 2 storeys and 3 bays. The windows are glazing bar sashes and are taller on the ground floor. The porch has a sprocketed hipped roof, a divided 4-panel door with pilaster jambs, and a semicircular overlight incorporating a lamp. To the left there is a single-storey one-bay C20 addition with a coped parapet and a tripartite glazing bar sash window. To the right there is a 2-storey 2-bay wing which has glazing bar sashes and has a small square window between the 1st floor windows. INTERIOR: the inner porch door is of oak and partly glazed. The doors opening off the stair hall are of mahogany, with 6 panels which have margins formed by raised mouldings. The dog-leg stair has an open string, turned mahogany balusters, and a wreathed mahogany handrail. House was known as Clifton Grove when built. (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: SE5947952703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463121
- 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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