Numbers 39 and 43 and Attached Railings

NUMBERS 39 AND 43 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 43, BOOTHAM

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259455
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
Numbers 39 and 43 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 39 AND 43 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 43, BOOTHAM
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1259455
Date first listed:
14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:
Numbers 39 and 43 and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 39 AND 43 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 43, BOOTHAM

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 39 AND 43 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 39 AND 43, 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 60000 52362

Details

YORK

SE5952SE BOOTHAM 1112-1/12/73 (North East side) 14/06/54 Nos.39 AND 43 and attached railings

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Formerly known as: Nos.39, 41 AND 43 BOOTHAM. Three houses, now two houses (No.43 and the former No.41 combined as one property and now part of school). 1748; altered c1800, late C19, and late C20. Builder Thomas Griffith. Brick in Flemish bond with painted stone dressings and tile roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys plus attic and cellar. 9 bays, with each former house of 3 bays. The facade has quoins with alternating rustication at the right, 2 storey bands, and a modillion gutter cornice. The windows have rubbed brick flat arches with keyblocks. They are sashed, and those to the right-hand 3 bays have had their glazing bars restored in the C20. The 2 right-hand ground-floor windows are a C20 reconstruction, replacing an inserted shopfront. The 2nd and 3rd bays have a 2-storey late C19 canted bay window. No.43 has 3 flat-roofed attic dormers. The left-hand bay of No.43 has a C19 doorcase with a dentilled pediment on console brackets, with a semicircular overlight, enriched keyblock, and a 6-panel door. The doorcase to No.39, in the 7th bay, has engaged reeded Composite columns with paterae above caps, enriched open pediment, fanlight, and swags and a mask in the tympanum. The door has 6 raised and fielded panels. To the right of the 3rd bay there is a lead hopper and downpipe. 3 axial chimneys behind ridge. INTERIOR: not inspected. Nos 39 and 43 were recorded by RCHM as retaining most of their original staircases, with open strings and turned balusters. Also recorded as retaining a fireplace and some panelling. No.45 (qv) at the left originally formed part of the same terrace but was re-fronted in the late C19. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the basement area is enclosed by plain iron railings on low stone copings. (An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of York: RCHME: Outside the City Walls East of the Ouse: HMSO London: 1975-: 56-7).

Listing NGR: SE6000052362

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Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York IV East, (1975), 56-7

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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.

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 39 and 43 and Attached Railings

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