Listed Building: NUMER 20 AND WALL ATTACHED TO SOUTH WEST CORNER (463010)

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Grade II
LBSUID 463010
Date assigned 14 June 1954
Date last amended

Description

YORK SE6051NW CASTLEGATE 1112-1/28/140 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.20 and wall attached to south-west corner GV II Formerly known as: Nos.20 AND 22 CASTLEGATE. House and shop, and wall approximately 50 metres long attached to rear, forming boundary between Nos 18 (qv) and 20. Wall late C13; house and shop early C19, re-roofed and altered later. MATERIALS: wall of magnesian limestone; house of orange brick in Flemish bond, part on painted stone plinth, and with painted stone dressings; ground floor, with remains of timber shopfront, rendered and painted; roof obscured by plain parapet. L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3-storey 3-window front. Plain pilasters and flat cornice of earlier shopfront retained on ground floor: openings altered to half-canted small-pane shop window at right of recessed glazed and panelled door, with upstairs access door of 6 sunk panels further left. At left end, folding door of sunk panels beneath blind fanlight in semicircular arch of painted voussoirs. On first floor, 12-pane sash window is flanked by shallow canted bay windows with panelled risers and 15-pane centre sashes. Second floor windows are 9-pane sash between 16-pane sashes. All windows except bays have painted stone sills and flat arches of voussoirs with keyblocks. Centre windows on both floors have floating cornices. INTERIOR: open string staircase with shaped treads has cast-iron balustrade of openwork angular panels. First floor room to left has apsidal end cantilevered over staircase, fitted with cupboards with shaped doors. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall attached to rear was part of the north-west wall of the precinct of the former Franciscan Friary. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 51; 114). Listing NGR: SE6041751606

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Grid reference SE 60417 51606 (point)
Map sheet SE65SW

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Record last edited

Jan 11 2007 3:00PM

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