29, CASTLEGATE
29, CASTLEGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259340
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 29, CASTLEGATE
- Statutory Address:
- 29, CASTLEGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259340
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 29, CASTLEGATE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29, 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:
- 29, 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 60474 51568
Details
YORK
SE6051NW CASTLEGATE 1112-1/28/144 (North East side) 24/06/83 No.29
GV II
House, now gallery. c1840, renovated 1991. Front of orange-brown brick in Flemish bond on painted moulded stone plinth; timber doorcase and moulded eaves cornice on small mutules. Stone coping and brick kneelers and stacks to double span slate roof; roof valley on right return masked by flat parapet. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 4-bay front to Castlegate: entrance in right return. All windows are 12-pane sashes with slender glazing bars, painted stone sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Right return: central doorcase of sunk panelled pilasters, Doric entablature hood and panelled reveals, with recessed 6-panel door and overlight, approached by steps. 12-pane window in centre of first floor. To left, fluted bowl rainwater head. INTERIOR: entrance hall has enriched dentilled cornice. Ionic arch of fluted columns and entablature leads to stairhall. Floors of both halls of encaustic tiles, and all doorcases are reeded with angle roundels. Open string winder staircase with shaped treadends, slender bobbin balusters and moulded serpentine handrail, wreathed at foot around turned newel. Rooms to left have moulded skirtings and moulded cornices, one with floral paterae, one with foliar paterae. Window and doorcases are reeded with angle roundels, and windows have panelled shutters and reveals. Both rooms have marble chimneypieces, one with curvilinear mantelshelf and cast-iron fire surround with chrysanthemum tiles, the other with plain mantelshelf on heavy moulded brackets. First floor: landing has moulded ceiling cornice: radial-glazed circular lantern, rising from moulded surround, lights stairwell. Both main rooms have moulded skirtings and moulded cornices. Window and doorcases plain, but interconnecting door has reeded architrave with angle roundels, panelled reveals and folding panelled doors. One room has moulded chimneypiece with angle roundels and moulded mantelshelf. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 113).
Listing NGR: SE6047451568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463014
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 113
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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