Numer 20 and Wall Attached to South West Corner
NUMER 20 AND WALL ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST CORNER, 20, CASTLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259336
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numer 20 and Wall Attached to South West Corner
- Statutory Address:
- NUMER 20 AND WALL ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST CORNER, 20, CASTLEGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259336
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Numer 20 and Wall Attached to South West Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMER 20 AND WALL ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST CORNER, 20, CASTLEGATE
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:
- NUMER 20 AND WALL ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST CORNER, 20, CASTLEGATE
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 60417 51606
Details
YORK
SE6051NW CASTLEGATE 1112-1/28/140 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.20 and wall attached to south-west corner
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.20 AND 22 CASTLEGATE. House and shop, and wall approximately 50 metres long attached to rear, forming boundary between Nos 18 (qv) and 20. Wall late C13; house and shop early C19, re-roofed and altered later. MATERIALS: wall of magnesian limestone; house of orange brick in Flemish bond, part on painted stone plinth, and with painted stone dressings; ground floor, with remains of timber shopfront, rendered and painted; roof obscured by plain parapet. L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Plain pilasters and flat cornice of earlier shopfront retained on ground floor: openings altered to half-canted small-pane shop window at right of recessed glazed and panelled door, with upstairs access door of 6 sunk panels further left. At left end, folding door of sunk panels beneath blind fanlight in semicircular arch of painted voussoirs. On first floor, 12-pane sash window is flanked by shallow canted bay windows with panelled risers and 15-pane centre sashes. Second floor windows are 9-pane sash between 16-pane sashes. All windows except bays have painted stone sills and flat arches of voussoirs with keyblocks. Centre windows on both floors have floating cornices. INTERIOR: open string staircase with shaped treads has cast-iron balustrade of openwork angular panels. First floor room to left has apsidal end cantilevered over staircase, fitted with cupboards with shaped doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall attached to rear was part of the north-west wall of the precinct of the former Franciscan Friary. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 51; 114).
Listing NGR: SE6041751606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 51, 114
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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