The Punch Bowl Hotel
2, NUNNERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259524
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Punch Bowl Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- 2, NUNNERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259524
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The Punch Bowl Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, NUNNERY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE PUNCH BOWL HOTEL, 5, 7 AND 9, BLOSSOM 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.
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:
- 2, NUNNERY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE PUNCH BOWL HOTEL, 5, 7 AND 9, BLOSSOM 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 59753 51431
Details
YORK
SE5951SE BLOSSOM STREET
1112-1/20/51 (South East side)
19/08/71 Nos.5, 7 AND 9
The Punch Bowl Hotel
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.5-9 including the Magnet Inn BLOSSOM
STREET.
Includes: No.2 NUNNERY LANE.
Public house and shops, now hotel and public house. c1835 and
c1863. Brick with painted stone and stucco dressings. Slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. The earlier part of the building, facing
Blossom Street, is of 5 bays. The windows to the upper storeys
are glazing bar sashes with brick flat arches. The ground
floor is of painted rusticated render and has openings with
elliptical arches. The 3rd bay contains a C20 entrance
recessed within a wide archway. The 4th and 5th bays have wide
window openings. The 2nd bay contains a similar window, with a
narrower arched blind recess to its right and a doorway with
C20 glazed door to its left. At the far left there is a
carriage entrance. A timber gutter is carried on paired
brackets. Ridge chimneys to left and right and to right of 1st
bay. At the right there is a taller addition with a one-bay
rounded corner and with 4 bays facing Nunnery Lane. The
windows to the upper storeys are sashed and have sill bands
and segmental brick arches with keystones. Above the ground
floor there is a continuous timber fascia and bracketed
cornice. On the ground floor the corner has 4 windows
replacing shopfronts, separated by timber pilasters. These
extend as far as the 1st bay of the Nunnery Lane facade. The
3rd bay contains a sashed window flanked by full-height
pilasters. The 2nd and 4th bays have doorways with similar
pilasters, and 4-panel doors with overlights which have margin
panes. Bracketed timber gutter. 3 axial ridge chimneys.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(RCHME: City of York: South-west of the Ouse: HMSO: 1972-:
123).
Listing NGR: SE5975351431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462811
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York III South West, (1972), 123
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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