Bootham House
BOOTHAM HOUSE, 61, BOOTHAM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259441
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Bootham House
- Statutory Address:
- BOOTHAM HOUSE, 61, BOOTHAM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259441
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Bootham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOOTHAM HOUSE, 61, BOOTHAM
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:
- BOOTHAM HOUSE, 61, BOOTHAM
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 59911 52443
Details
YORK
SE5952SE BOOTHAM 1112-1/12/85 (North East side) 14/06/54 No.61 Bootham House
GV II
House, now offices and Institute for the Blind. Late C18 with alterations of c1840. Brick in Flemish bond with painted stone or stucco dressings. Slate roof, hipped at the left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and 3 bays. The windows are sashed on the 2nd floor with glazing bar sashes below. All have painted brick flat arches. The 1st floor windows have balconies added c1840, with anthemion-pattern ironwork. Above the ground-floor windows is an applied storey band of painted timber. The right-hand bay contains a doorway of c1840 of painted stone or stucco. It has outer fluted Doric pilasters supporting an entablature, narrow flanking lights, engaged Ionic columns framing the door, and a central pediment. The door has 6 panels. Modillion gutter cornice, with lead hopper towards left. Ridge chimneys to right of 2nd bay and at right. INTERIOR: not inspected. RCHM records fittings mostly c1840 including a stone, cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balusters, and some rooms have elaborate friezes and centrepieces to the ceilings. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: London: 1975-: 61-2).
Listing NGR: SE5991152443
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462903
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 61-2
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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