York House Hotel
YORK HOUSE HOTEL, 1 AND 2, YORK BUILDINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395804
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- List Entry Name:
- York House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- YORK HOUSE HOTEL, 1 AND 2, YORK BUILDINGS
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1395804
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-2010
- List Entry Name:
- York House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- YORK HOUSE HOTEL, 1 AND 2, YORK BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address 2:
- YORK HOUSE HOTEL, BROAD 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:
- YORK HOUSE HOTEL, 1 AND 2, YORK BUILDINGS
- Statutory Address:
- YORK HOUSE HOTEL, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 74979 65159
Details
YORK BUILDINGS 656-1/30/1925
Nos.1 AND 2 York House Hotel
(Formerly Listed as: GEORGE STREET (South side) No.1 (York House Hotel) and No.2 York Buildings) 12/06/50
GV II
Includes: York House Hotel BROAD STREET. Symmetrical terrace of houses, later hotel and shops. 1755-1759, land was auctioned for building leases 1.10.1753 (Council Minutes). By John Wood the Younger. MATERIALS: Limestone ashlar, steep double pitched slate roof with eleven dormers and five truncated moulded stacks to party walls and right. PLAN: Double depth plan with rear additions. EXTERIOR: Three storeys with attics and basements, nineteen windows to whole terrace. Returned coped parapet and modillion cornice, moulded architraves to upper floor windows, those to first floor with continuous sill band and cornices, reveals have been chamfered, ground floor platband and plinth, plate glass sash windows. Centre stepped forward with seven windows; window to centre of whole terrace wider on each floor (now two/two pane sashes) over doorcase (probably early C19) with recessed panelled pilasters supporting cornice and blocking course, door (now window) has overlight. Set back left hand block has six windows and lead rainwater downpipe to right. Prostyle Tuscan porch (probably C19) to right of centre over semicircular arch to blocked door. Set back right hand block, No.2 York Buildings, not part of hotel, also has six windows. To each side are set back C20 doors with overlights under pediments on consoles, probably original house entrances. Between doors are two C19 shops, carved into platband are words: `THE OLD POST OFFICE'. Left return in Broad Street has five tripartite second floor windows with six/six pane sashes to centre and five Venetian windows to first and ground floors with plate glass sashes. All windows to right corner are blind. Downhill slope of Broad Street creates lower ground floor, two left hand ranges have Gothic glazing bars to Venetian windows. Wide shopfront to former tavern in C20 Regency style. South frontage onto yard has many sash windows including three large tripartite ones over double carriage doors which light former Assembly Room. INTERIOR: Not inspected. The land was auctioned for building leases 1 October 1753 (Council Minutes) and then constructed following a conventional Palladian design by the younger Wood. The return elevation to Broad Street, with its stripped down Venetian windows to the first floor, resembles other developments overseen by the younger Wood such as Brock Street or Rivers Street. The hotel has recently undergone extensive refurbishment and is thought to be much altered inside. At present unoccupied No.2 York Buildings was listed on 11 August 1972. SOURCES: J. Orbach, Card Index of Bath Architects and Streets (1978).
Listing NGR: ST7497965159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 511214
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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