17, BRIDGE STREET

17, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259353
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
17, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address:
17, BRIDGE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259353
Date first listed:
14-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:
17, BRIDGE STREET
Statutory Address 1:
17, BRIDGE STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
17, BRIDGE STREET

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 60155 51682

Details

YORK

SE6051NW BRIDGE STREET 1112-1/28/126 (North side) No.17

GV II

Department store, now shop and offices. Dated 1911. Orange-red brick in English garden wall bond; window arches of orange gauged brick with buff terracotta dressings; pilasters, cornice and parapet coping of faience; slate roof, in 3 parallel ranges, gabled at rear. EXTERIOR: Bridge Street front 3 storeys, 3 bays, with subsidiary bay set back at right end. Rusticated ground floor with rusticated pilaster strips, outer ones with carved laurel garlands in frieze blocks. Upper floors articulated by giant Ionic pilasters carrying plain entablature with cornice enriched with bead mouldings. Parapet obscures roof. 3 shopfronts on ground floor, 2 with curved corners and glazed double doors, left one later replacement. Each bay on first floor has one 2-light plate glass window with segmental transom. On second floor, centre bay has clock in moulded stone roundel between rusticated dwarf pilasters with moulded imposts, flanked by narrow cross windows; outer bays each have three cross windows. Raised second floor band forms sill band to outer bay windows. Date stone beneath clock. Right return to river: 3 storeys, 4 unequal bays. Shopfronts on ground floor between rusticated pilaster strips with egg-and-dart impost mouldings. First floor windows recessed beneath segmental arches of radiating voussoirs on rusticated piers, behind balconies balustraded with plain railings and inset patterned panels. Windows are of 3 lights and incorporate doors with inset oval lights. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6015551682

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
462985
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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